
At that time, the Lord Jesus was born in a humble cave in Bethlehem of Judah, and no one knew of it but the immaculate Virgin Mary his Mother and Joseph her spouse. No one heard of this miracle surpassing all miracles but a few humble shepherds who had been told by angels in the sky that sang this hymn: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards men." Then the Magi came from the East, led by a star in the heaven: they found their way to where the Divine Infant rested, and they adored Him, and opening their treasures, they offered Him gifts of gold, incense and myrrh.
To God Incarnate, to the suckling Infant who humbled Himself and took our form, becoming one of us to make us divine; to the One who later walked among us to teach us the way of salvation and who loved us so much as to give His life for it: to Him be glory, honor, and adoration forever and ever. Oh, come, let us adore Him! [At St. Paul's, we read this prior to the Processional Hymn on Christmas Day: "O Come, All Ye Faithful."]
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This is wonderful. I'm going to do it this morning!
Didn't Caesar Augustus reign from 31 BC to AD 14? According to this chronology , Christ would have been born in AD 12. But Herod the Great ruled as "King of the Jews" from 38 to 4 BC, which would be 5 BC, which is the more likely date.
Something doesn't add up here.
Ah, who cares about the numbers, it gets the points across. (Just kidding, mostly.)
I've been thinking lately that Jesus must have been born c. 8 B.C., on the theory that the census mentioned in Luke 2 happened BEFORE Quirinius was governing Syria.
Is this the current edition of the Roman Kalends for the day, or a foreshortened version? The one I recall began at Creation, and had more 'secular' dating pegs as well.
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