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"Why did the Protestant Reformers abandon the Greek Septuagint for a rabbinic textual tradition?"

I regret buying corn through KYC rails 😔

Friendly reminder: 12 days of Christmas starts now. Next stop, Theophany!

From the perspective of the Theotokos, the Nativity shines as the mystery in which she offers her full and fearless obedience to God, not as a rival to Christ but as the one who freely receives Him in her flesh and becomes the living gateway of our salvation. In her womb, the Creator fashions for Himself a human nature taken wholly from her, and she bears Him in love while confessing, with deep humility, that the child she nurses is the One through whom all things came to be. Saint Gregory Palamas speaks of her as the boundary between the created and the uncreated, because in her person the human will responds without reserve to divine grace and makes possible the coming of the Word in the flesh (Gregory Palamas, Homily on the Entry of the Theotokos). Her motherhood never diminishes Christ but proclaims His full divinity and full humanity, since He receives from her what He does not possess eternally — our mortal life — while bestowing upon her, and through her upon us, the pledge of glorification. In the Feast of the Nativity, the Church honours her not as the source of salvation, but as the one who consents to become its vessel, and whose joyful assent echoes in every heart that dares to say yes to God.

Christ is born! Glorify Him!

The grotto of the Nativity, Bethlehem, birthplace of our Lord After many types and prefigurings, messengers and heralds, prophets and righteous men, wise men and kings, finally He appeared, the Lord of the world and King of kings, to perform the work of the salvation of mankind that could not be performed by His servants. May His be eternal glory and praise! Amen. Today the Virgin gives birth to the Transcendent One, And the earth offers a cave to the Unapproachable One! Angels with shepherds glorify Him! The wise men journey with a star! Since for our sake the Eternal God was born as a Little Child! Kontakion for the Nativity of our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ

The Jews are preparing to celebrate “Nittel Nacht,” a parody of Christmas, where they mock the “hanged” with “latrines,” while reading “Toledot Yeshu,” a medieval story mocking the the Gospel which describes the life of Jesus, from birth to death, and is filled with blasphemous insults. Modern Judaism is not an "alternative continuation of the Second Temple religion, which evolved differently from Christianity,” but a false religion primarily built on rejection and opposition to Christ and Orthodox Christianity. "Is there not a great gulf between us and the Jews? Is it not for the most important of matters that this dispute exists? Why do you mix what cannot be mixed? They crucified Christ, whom you worship." ☦️Saint John Chrysostomos

What a wonderful time of year! Without the incarnation of the God-Man Jesus Christ we would not have His Theophany, Transfiguration, Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension! “What was prefigured at that time in the flame of the bush was openly manifested in the mystery of the Virgin… Just as on the mountain the bush burned but was not consumed, so also the Virgin gave birth to the light and was not corrupted.” —St. Gregory of Nyssa in The Life of Moses and On the Birth of Christ☦️