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| "Adoration of the Shepherds" by Gerard van Honthorst (1622) |
Bethlehem
this day resembles heaven; hearing from the stars the singing of
angelic voices; and in place of the sun, enfolds within itself on
every side, the Sun of justice. And ask not how: for where God wills,
the order of nature yields. For He willed; He had the power; He
descended; He redeemed; all things yielded in obedience to God. This
day He Who is, is Born; and He Who is, becomes what He was not. For
when He was God, He became man; yet not departing from the Godhead
that is His. Nor yet by any loss of divinity became He man, nor
through increase became He God from man; but being the Word He became
flesh, His nature, because of impassability, remaining unchanged.
– Saint
John Chrysostom
Saint
John Chrysostom's
patronage: Constantinople;
education; epilepsy; lecturers; orators; preachers
