Mary's love for her Son on Christmas night

'She adores - takes him into her arms - presses him to her heart - swathes his infant limbs - and lays him down in the manger.'

In his beautiful commentary on Mass of midnight on the quiet and still night of Christmas, Dom Gueranger writes thus: “It is now time to offer the Great Sacrifice, and to call down our Emmanuel from heaven: he alone can fully pay the debt of gratitude which mankind owes to the Eternal Father. He will intercede for us on the Altar, as he did in his Crib.…