Tag: Nativity of the Lord

“Iconographic tradition has theologically interpreted the manger and the swaddling cloths in terms of the theology of the Fathers. The child stiffly wrapped in bandages is seen as prefiguring the hour of his death: from the outset, he is the sacrificial victim, as we shall see more closely when we examine the reference to the …

Soon we celebrate the birth of our Lord. We can understand better the structure of the feast, in the Byzantine Church, by looking at the Gospels which are read: 1) On the Sunday before Christmas, we read the genealogy of Jesus. Moreover, on this Sunday, we do read the birth of Christ according to St. …