December 2018 / January 2019 - Vol. 101
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. Some Spiritual Reading Resources for Christmas and Epiphany Season

Reflections and Meditations

• The Revealing of the Hidden Mystery, from Treatise of Hippolytus against the heresy of Noetus (170-236 AD)
• Feast of Epiphany and Theophany

• God Showers Us with Gifts, by Irenaeus 200 A.D.
• The Wonder of Christ, by Origen (185-254 AD)
• If Christ had not been born of woman, by Proclus of Constantinople (446)
• When Christ comes, God will be seen by men and women, by Irenaeus 200 A.D.
• The Word made flesh deifies us, by Hippolytus (170-236 AD)

• Life itself appeared in human form, by Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD)
• Our desires will be completely fulfilled in the vision of the Word, by Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD)
• The Wonderful Exchange, by Athanasius (2980373 AD) and Gregory Nazianzen (330-389 AD)
• Truth sprang from the earth and justice looked down from heaven, by Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD)
• O Christian, be aware of  your nobility, by Leo the Great (died 461 AD)
• The Wisdom of God was made flesh, by Peter Chrysologus (400-450 AD)
• The Magnificat, a commentary of Bede on St. Luke's Gospel (672-735 AD)

• The fulness of the Godhead came in the fulness of time, by Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
• The Word of God will Come Within Us, by Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
• "The Word was made flesh," by Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)
• "There came wise men from the East," by Lancelot Andrewes (1620)
• The God in the Cave, by G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

Contemporary authors
• The Real Meaning of Christmas: what it means for us, by Steve Clark
• The gifts of the Spirit in Isaiah 11:1-5, by Steve Clark
• And He Lived Among Us, Therese Hilario Andres
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• "You shall call his name Jesus," by Jeanne Kun
• Jesus: a portrait of humility, by Jeanne Kun
• God in Bethlehem's Cave: a meditation by Don Schwager 
• The Gift of the Magi: a short story about unselfish love, by O. Henry

Poems for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany
• Born This Eve, poem by Lynne May
• Hope Revived (Isaiah 11), poem by Jeanne Kun
• Advent Overture (Annunciation), poem by Jeanne Kun
• The Word Made Flesh, poem by Jeanne Kun
• Anna's Heir, poem by Jeanne Kun
• Journey by Starlight (Epiphany), poem by Jeanne Kun



manuscript illustration (top) by Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci's Nativity in an Initial P (Morgan Library, c. 1392-1399)


Links to other seasonal spiritual readings:

• Spiritual Reading for Advent Season
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Spiritual Reading for Christmas and Epiphany Season
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Spiritual Reading on the Cross of Jesus Christ

• Spiritual Reading on the Resurrection of Christ and the Easter season
• Spiritual Reading for Pentecost and the Gift of the Holy Spirit



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