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.”

(PerMariam) — In his beautiful commentary for the Midnight Mass 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 …