Image credit: Virgin and Child flanked by Archangels by a follower of Fre Seyon.
Shamelessly pinched from here.
Highly recommend Pope Leo's homily for New Year's Day. It's a reflection on human freedom and the best way to use our freedom in the new year.
In Mary’s divine motherhood, then, we see the meeting of two immense, “unarmed” realities: that of God, who renounces every privilege of his divinity to be born in the flesh (cf. Phil 2:6-11), and that of a human person who, trustingly and fully, embraces God’s will. In a perfect act of love, she offers him the greatest power she possesses: her freedom.
And because it's Epiphany in the U.S.: Nations Shall Walk by Your Light
