Cave, make ready; for the Ewe-lamb has come, bearing Christ in her womb.
Manger, receive the One who by a word frees us who are born of earth from irrational action.
Shepherds abiding in the fields, bear witness to the fearful wonder;
Magi from Persia, offer gold, frankincense and myrrh to the King; because the Lord has appeared from a Virgin Mother.
Bowing low like a slave his Mother worshipped him, and cried out to the One in her arms, ‘How were you sown in me, or how did you grow within me, my Redeemer and my God?’