Summary: This week Fr. Gabriel combines thoughts from three different homilies at the time of the Nativity to offer you a diptych. One side of the diptych is a sketch of our approach to the Festival through image, symbol, and literary allusions; the other side is a sketch of the aftermath of the Feast, when we begin to contemplate with sobriety following Christ, the cost of which we see in the martyrs' days that immediately follow.
