ADVENT NATIVITY ACCORDING TO TRADITION
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Coptic Icon of the Nativity, 7 ° -9 ° century St. Catherine's Monastery, Sinai |
"The Incarnation was not only the work of God, but also the work the will and faith of the Virgin. Without the consent of the very pure, without the help of his faith, that purpose was also impossible without the intervention of the Three Divine Persons themselves. God is Mother and borrows the flesh she wants to give it. And He incarnate voluntarily, and did he want his Mother enfantât freely and voluntarily. "Saint Nicolas
Cabasilas (1322-1397) author and theologian Byzantine secular
in" Homily on the Annunciation
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