NativityI would like to wish everyone who regularly reads, occasionally visits, or happens to come by this blog, a very Merry Christmas!  Thanks to everyone who wished my Fiancee and me congratulations as well.  God bless!  I’ll conclude with a snippet of a poem by Gerald Manley-Hopkins

Of her who not only

Gave God’s infinity

Dwindled to infancy

Welcome in womb and breast,

Birth, milk, and all the rest

But mothers each new grace

That does now reach our race—

Mary Immaculate,

Merely a woman, yet

Whose presence, power is

Great as no goddess’s

Was deemèd, dreamèd; who

This one work has to do—

Let all God’s glory through,

God’s glory which would go

Through her and from her flow

Off, and no way but so.

The Virgin Mary Compared to the Air We Breathe from the Poetry Connection

Image from Kid’s Domain Christmas Clipart