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Text Box: That is why the entirety of creation, all the good persons and all the evil persons, awaited the coming of the Messiah, of the Savior. The good awaited in anticipation of the fulfillment of the purpose for which man was created, for the glorification of God by humans and the union in everlasting happiness, of those good humans with God. The evil awaited in anticipation of destroying that union and glorification. It is the memorialization of the actuality of that event, the birth of the Son of God, the Son of Man, that we anticipate in this season. And that which caused the evil angels pride to separate them from God, may well have been that God would take on the full and complete nature of a human, a nature which was below that of the angels. The angels must worship God in that human nature, and acknowledge the superiority of the mother of God made Flesh, and to do that the pride of the evil angels would not permit. But none of creation realized or understood the magnificence of what God had designed. It was not until it was accomplished that mankind and perhaps even the angels understood what God had made happen. God re-created the world with the conception and birth of The Word Made Flesh. But He made this re-creation take place through Mary, for just as God is the Father-Creator of the world, so too is the Blessed Ever Virgin Mary the mother of the re-created world. It is God the Father who gave life to all that lives, and it is through Mother-Mary that all living things were given new life. For God begot the Son, through whom all things were made, and Mary gave birth to the same Son as the Savior of the world. “Without God’s Son, nothing could exist; without Mary’s Son, nothing could be redeemed.” (St. Anselm). The evil persons of the material world and of the spirit world know that

Text Box: because of Mary’s great holiness, the redemption of mankind took place in the Son of Man who is the Son of God. Evil therefore attacks her and attacks every concept of honoring her. Evil persons, devils and men, quite successfully shroud human intelligence with stupidity, stiff kneckedness, pride, and even hatred, regarding Mary the Mother of God; for evil persons hate her more than they hate God. Evil persons hate Mary the Mother of our Salvation not only because she is the Mother of our Redemption, Jesus Christ, but also because she gave birth to the God-Man whom evil persons must acknowledge as their superior and worship in His human form. Because she gave birth to her only Child, evil persons, including spirits, must also acknowledge her as their superior, and acknowledge that because of her perfection in holiness, she is the Queen of all creation; for it is her perfection in holiness that made her to be the Mother of her own Creator. Christians understand this. Even if this is the first time these truths have been presented to them, Christians understand these things, for they have not just belief, they have Faith. For Christians, this makes sense, it is logical. But for those who have attained the use of their reason for whom this does not make sense, for whom this is not logical, it must be that they are not truly, really, Christians. They may speak the words, but their words are empty, while for a Christian, the same words are full. Though evil persons disguise all the holiness of the all the Saints who we celebrate at Christmas time, though they pretend Saint Nicholas is a salesman for greed instead of the Saint who was so like Christ that he calmed the sea when sailors were in peril, though they pretend and attempt to make the world believe that the Word of God Made Flesh was just a man with a nice philosophy of life, they never will be successful. They will not be successful for what is, is, and truth will never change. And the simple truth is, that the Eternally Begotten Son of God was born of one

Text Box: of His creatures, Mary, and that He did open to all who will follow His Way, but only those who follow His Way, the doors to eternal heavenly union with God The Blessed Trinity. Rom 15:4-13; Mat 11:2-10; Saint Anselm, Bishop +

Text Box: seeking the savior of their souls. Since it was but thirty years earlier that the Star had told of the birth of our Lord, and the Magi had arrived with great fanfare, and Hearod had killed the Holy Innocents seeking to kill Christ, and the angels had proclaimed the birth of our Lord to the shepherds, one would think that the Jews, Levites and Pharisees would know that the Christ was somewhere, that he was the Savior of their Souls and not of their Earthly desires, and that the prophecies had foretold of the role Saint John the Baptist would hold in announcing the coming of the Messiah. One would think they remembered the beautiful Canticle of Zechariah, and the Magnificat of the Blessed Ever Virgin Mary. But, of course, they did not. It is difficult to accept that the Jews did not remember that magnificent star which announced the birth of the Christ, but it really should not be difficult to accept their lapse of memory. Each of us constantly forgets to worship God always, or we ignore it if it is inconvenient. If the star had continued to follow our Lord wherever He went, perhaps then the Jews would have remembered that the Savior was present, and their inquiry would be prayer for His beginning His public life. But the star was not continually present,

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