BLESSED NATIVITY

BLESSED BE THE TIME AND SEASON,

IN WHICH THE ETERNAL HEIR OF GLORY WAS BORN.

HE CAME TO OUR ABODE FOR A REASON,

TO SEE EXISTENCE IN LIGHT OF OUR PERCEPTION,

AND HE WITH US SHOULD DWELL IN SUCH A DUSTY CREATION.

THE SAGES  IN THE HOLY WRIT HAVE SAID ALL,

AS PERTAINS THIS MOST GLORIOUS LIGHT

WHO MUST COME AND CONQUER MANY AS DUST.

THAT HE SHOULD BRING LIGHT SO BRIGHT’

TO ALL WHO HAVE FALL.

HAIL TO THIS HUMBLE KING,

WHO WAS BORN AS A BABY-GOD

BY A MARRIED VIRGIN MAID.

BEHOLD HE WHO OUR BODIES MADE

SHOULD OUR NATURE CLING.

THE CHERUBIC AND SERAPHIC HOSTS AND OTHER HOLY BEINGS,

ALL ARRAYED IN THEIR SPLENDID HEIRARCHY,

IN SILENCE THEY GAZE AT THE HAZE

OF HIS NEW EARTHLY DORMAIN.

FOR THEIR MASTER THEY MISSED,

AND HIS LOVING PRESENCE DEPARTED.

WHAT GLORIOUS FORM,WHAT INDESTRUCTIBLE NATURE

THE ETERNAL SON DISCARDS

TO TAKE ON OUR MORTAL FEATURE,

FOR TO KNOW PAIN AND DEATH

ON THIS LOWLY EARTH.

IT WAS THE INFALLIBLE BEAUTY AND MAJESTY,

WHICH THE HOLY EARTH HAD SEEN IN EDEN,

THAT SUCH DAZZLING VISIT SHOULD BE HER WELCOME.

IN HUMILITY SHE RECEIVES HER MASTER IN SUCH HER IMPURITY.