3rd Day of Christmas

December 27 is always the feast of St. John. The 1st reading is the very beginning of his First Letter.  Eternal God enters flesh:
Something which has existed since the beginning
which we have heard,
which we have seen with our own eyes,
which we have watched
and touched with our own hands,
the Word of life.

(Sorry, for some reason I have not been able to put text under the picture for several days. This picture is from yesterday.  We have just enough snow to make our world beautiful.)

Good News, Great Joy

Every Thing

Everything that is, is holy now.

-John L'Heureaux

Deep Incarnation

More than 150 geese taking off, I presume, for points south.  Click on picture for a better look.
Today is the feast of St. John Damascene.  He lived in the Eastern Church at a time (657-749) when the veneration of icons was being attacked as idolatrous.  In defense of icons St. John declared that what was at stake was the capacity of material things to serve as the vehicle of divine grace, the very basis of the Incarnation.  By becoming matter in Jesus, God enters into all matter.