Adoration of the Christ Child

Adoration of the Christ Child by Carl Von Marr

Christus natus est! Christ is born! Deo gratias! The preparations of Advent have culminated in joyous celebration: a glorious Solemn High Mass at the Cathedral, conventual adoration of our Infant King, Mass in the daytime, and conventual festivities.

​‘Exult, O ye Virgins of Christ! for the Mother of Christ is your companion. You could not be his Mother; but for his sake you would be Virgins: he that is not born of you, is born to you. And yet you remember his words: Whosoever shall do the will of my Father, is my brother and sister and mother [St Matt. xii 50]. Now have you not done the will of his Father?

 ‘... Let your soul be virginal by its faith, for it is by her Faith that the Church is a Virgin. ... Jesus is Truth and Peace and Justice; conceive him by your faith, give him birth by your good works; in order that what the womb of Mary did in the Flesh of Jesus, your heart may do in the law of Jesus. Believe me, you yourselves are children of virginity, for are you not the members of Christ? Mary is Mother of Jesus, who is our Head; and the Church is the mother of you who are his members. Yes, the Church is, like Mary, both Mother and Virgin: she is Mother by her tender charity; and Virgin by the purity of her faith and holiness.' [St. Augustine, Ninth Sermon On our Lord’s Nativity]