We begin: "ALTHOUGH our Blessed Lord came down on earth as a little
Child, He had no earthly father, as other children have; for God,
in heaven, was His Father. But He had an earthly Mother; and her
name was Mary; and she was the daughter of Jewish parents of a
little city in Galilee, called Nazareth. Mary was a real woman,
like any other woman, with this exception, - she never, in all her
life, had a sin upon her soul; not even original sin. For, out of
regard for her great dignity, she had been created Immaculate; that
is, free from every sin, for that is what immaculate means. And she
was very beautiful." Let us consider the beautiful story of the
Magi: "Well, on the first night of what has come to be regarded as
the year one, as three of these Magi were studying the heavens,
they suddenly beheld a new and brilliant star. And, recalling the
ancient prophecy, they exclaimed, "Behold the promised sign
To-night, in Judea, the great Expected King is born." Then,
inspired from heaven, they added, "Since all the world must serve
Him, let us go, in the name of all the Gentiles, and adore Him."
And straightway they made the necessary preparations and started
off." After we consider Jesus' hidden life: "As He was approaching
His thirtieth birthday, the whole land was set in commotion by a
man named John the Baptist. Bareheaded and barefooted, with hair
and beard long and unkempt, with features drawn and haggard, with
deep-set eyes, strangely shining, and wearing on1y a garment of
camel's hair, this man had suddenly appeared at the Jordan River;
and, walking up and down its banks, he called on all who passed
that way, to do penance and be baptized, saying that the coming of
the Christ was near at hand." Letus consider this description of a
Synagogue where Jesus preached: "The synagogue stood on the side of
a peculiarly shaped hill which ended abruptly at the top in a very
steep precipice. It was a plain building, made of whitish stone,
with a flat roof and three front entrances. Within, at the farther
end, there was a kind of raised platform or sanctuary. This
sanctuary was without an altar, for there was only one altar in all
the land, and that was in the Temple of Jerusalem; but instead, it
had a kind of pulpit or reading desk, which stood about in the
middle. Just to the left, and slightly behind the pulpit, hung a
long curtain with a lighted lamp before it. This lamp was there to
remind the people that behind the curtain, there was a precious
chest or ark, containing the Bible, - to their hearts, the dearest
of all the sacred objects outside the Temple of Jerusalem. The
Bible was written by hand, on different rolls of parchment, (for
that was hundreds and hundreds of years before the art of printing
was invented) and some portion of it was read at every service. The
body of the synagogue was divided into a front and rear section by
means of a railing which ran across it. It was filled with benches,
those in front sections being reserved for the men, while the women
occupied those in the rear." Before the Ascension we read: "By thus
allowing the light of His resurrection to shine for forty days on
the wondrous truths of His mortal life, our Lord made the Apostles
understand, as, otherwise, they never would have understood, that
He had come to make known the truth about God and holiness, to die
for sin, and to establish a Church by which His teachings might be
made known to all the world."
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