Image credit: St. Stephen, Hans Memling. I like the observation at J.R.'s Art Place that St. Stephen looks like he's marveling over cool rocks he found.
In the Son made man, God gives us nothing less than his very self, in order to “redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own” (Titus 2:14). Born in the night is the One who redeems us from the night. The hint of the dawning day is no longer to be sought in the distant reaches of the cosmos, but by bending low, in the stable nearby.
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