1 CHRISTMAS Brethren, let us be happy! Let the nations rejoice and exult! Not the visible sun, but the sun’s invisible Creator gave us this holy day, when the Virgin Mother, from the fruitfulness of her womb and with her virginity preserved,2 brought forth3 Him who was made visible for us and by whom—invisible—she herself had been created. A virgin who conceives, a virgin who gives birth;4 a virgin with Child,
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