He became a little child. The virgin mother wraps his tender limbs in swaddling clothes - and do you still tremble with fear? Or will you realise from this that he has not come to destroy but to save you, not to bind but to set you free?
St Bernard of Clairvaux - from a Christmas sermon, "On the Five Springs".
(The painting is Botticelli's "Virgin adoring the sleeping Christ Child", 1490.)
2 comments:
Thanks for this series of quotes from St. Bernard. I have found them edifying.
Matt
Matt - much appreciated. Reading through St Bernard's Christmas homilies, I have been struck by how he continually returns to the saving humility of the Incarnation.
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