And to us who come, in the midst of the wicked world torn by
malice, to venerate the Infant lying in the manger, what law and wisdom
of life are given by this miraculous sign? To what do the angels now
call those who come to venerate Christ? They call them to receive into
their hearts His humiliation, His persecution, His crucifixion, as the
sole sign of the Christian life, as its power and triumph.
For
the best self-attestation of the Good is its defencelessness in the
face of the of the power of evil. The best attestation of Truth is
silence in the face of much-talkative falsehood. The supreme
manifestation of Beauty consists in the unadornment by vain adornment.
The power of God triumphs by means of itself, not by means of the power
of this world. For the world, there is no power of God. The world does
not see and does not know the power of God; it laughs at the power of
God. But Christians know that the sign of the Son of God is
powerlessness in the world - the Infant in the manger.
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