Whence do we find a Galla Placidia to come forth in our own times? Do we see and focus only on woe in the world and discount hope and enchantment all around us?
"Christianity, at that time, was different than what it is now"
Indeed, yet as you suggest the journey to Nativity has been a powerful story since early times. I am indebted to Geza Vemes, Professor of Jewish Studies at Oxford, ('Christian Beginnings') for pointing out that 'This stress laid on a childlike attitude towards God is peculiar to Jesus."
I recently listened to a reading by Iain McGilchrist of a sermon on the Nativity delivered by Anglican Bishop Lancelot Andrewes, on Christmas Day 1622 in the presence of King James 1st of England & Scotland. It was an interpretation of the journey of the Magi and the guidance of the Day Star.
One Autumn nearly 50 years ago in a soundless night after a storm at sea and close to the darkest part of the shore of Crete, I looked out from an unglazed window to stars I had never seen before and have never seen since. You could almost touch them.
Van Gogh's starry picture is a brilliant introduction to the small building in Ravenna, and the ceiling.
Thanks. Have a good Christmas.
PS A story for another time is the project to deliver further debris and pollution into the upper atmosphere and its protective layers by multi 10s of thousand rockets to service 5G and perhaps an internet of things.
Whence do we find a Galla Placidia to come forth in our own times? Do we see and focus only on woe in the world and discount hope and enchantment all around us?
"Christianity, at that time, was different than what it is now"
Indeed, yet as you suggest the journey to Nativity has been a powerful story since early times. I am indebted to Geza Vemes, Professor of Jewish Studies at Oxford, ('Christian Beginnings') for pointing out that 'This stress laid on a childlike attitude towards God is peculiar to Jesus."
I recently listened to a reading by Iain McGilchrist of a sermon on the Nativity delivered by Anglican Bishop Lancelot Andrewes, on Christmas Day 1622 in the presence of King James 1st of England & Scotland. It was an interpretation of the journey of the Magi and the guidance of the Day Star.
One Autumn nearly 50 years ago in a soundless night after a storm at sea and close to the darkest part of the shore of Crete, I looked out from an unglazed window to stars I had never seen before and have never seen since. You could almost touch them.
Van Gogh's starry picture is a brilliant introduction to the small building in Ravenna, and the ceiling.
Thanks. Have a good Christmas.
PS A story for another time is the project to deliver further debris and pollution into the upper atmosphere and its protective layers by multi 10s of thousand rockets to service 5G and perhaps an internet of things.