Eight (8) days after His Divinity, our Lord Jesus Christ deigned to be circumcised. He submitted to circumcision, first of all, to fulfill the Law. "Think not that I am come to destroy the Law," said He; "I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill" (Matthew, Chapter 5). He subjected Himself to the Law to free transgressors subject to the Law, as the holy Apostle teaches: "When the fullness of time was come, God sent forth His Son, made a woman, made under the Law to redeem them that were under the Law" (Galatians, Chapter 4).

A man is born into the world" (John 16:21). Before Christ, no one ever greeted with such rapture the appearance of man as He Who had created man. The Creator of the universe rejoiced more man than all the rest of the cosmos. Man, competed and perfected, is wondrous, even as God is wondrous. He is immortal and supra-cosmic. He is more than a microcosm-he is microtheos. For the Eternal Logos/Word of the Father to be made flesh "in the likeness of man" (Philippians 2:7) means that, with the gift of love, man, in turn, may become like God, even to identity.

Today is born of the Virgin Him Who holdest all creation in the hollow of His hand. He Whose essence is untouchable is wrapped in swaddling clothes as a babe. The God Who from of old established the heavens lieth in a manger. He Who showered the people with manna in the wilderness feedeth on milk from the breasts. And the Bridegroom of the Church calleth the Magi. And the Son of the Virgin accepteth gifts from them. We worship Thy Nativity O Christ.