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00:22Let us pray.
00:50Let us pray.
00:54And that all sinful passion and affection being destroyed within me, I may be renewed in perfect innocence of life.
01:26Let us pray.
01:34Praise and honor and glory be to you, O Christ, who, out of your affection for me, granted me to
01:40be born in the true Christian faith,
01:44and has mercilessly brought me up from the beginning of my life, supplying me with food and the other necessaries
01:50for the nourishment and support of my body.
01:54May my heart find no relish except in and through you.
01:59May you alone possess my innermost soul.
02:03May I exceedingly hunger for you, the bread of heaven, and thirst for you, the fountain of life.
02:09So that this life's exile ended, I may deserve to be satisfied with the joys of your eternal perfection.
02:19Praise, honor, and glory be to you, O Christ, who, up until this time, has preserved and delivered me from
02:26countless dangers of soul and body,
02:28even when I abused your gifts, not deserting me, even when I abused your gifts, not deserting me.
02:47I may bemoan myself, I may be hateful in my own sight, but I may please you, my creator and
02:56my only redeemer in all things.
03:01Praise, honor, and glory be to you, O Christ, who, when I lie immersed in the most loathsome vices,
03:09and was leading a most ungodly life, in your long-suffering, bore with me for such a long time, and
03:16brought me to repentance.
03:18Grant that my acceptable contrition and holy works, I may expiate the stains of my past sin,
03:25and that from now on I may lead a life of purity, and love you above all things, with most
03:33burning love.
03:36Praise, honor, and glory be to you, O Christ, who, when I was on the brink of the very precipice,
03:42and just within the jaws of hell, did not permit me to perish, but called me, though deaf,
03:49and trying to run from you to the way of salvation.
03:54Grant that from now on I may follow after you with humble devotion,
03:59and with a joyful heart correspond to your holy inspirations,
04:05with from my heart farewell to all things, and may cleave inseparably to you alone.
04:14Praise, honor, and glory be to you, O Christ, who always directed me, the vilest of sinners,
04:21has protected me, has looked upon me with the eyes of mercy,
04:25and still so fondly supports and cherishes me with your goodness.
04:30Despite my daily transgressions, as if forgetful of all others,
04:35you cared for me alone, grant that I also may love you most ardently,
04:43leaving all transitory things for your sake,
04:46and may think of you alone, and may with a ready mind and in all places,
04:51follow and perform your holy will.
04:55Amen.
05:00O Lord, open our lips, and our mouths shall sing your praise.
05:11O Lord, open our lips, and our mouths shall sing your praise.
05:35We as the see that haveützen kill us, and not we ourselves,
05:40We are his people and the sheep of his foster.
05:48O Lord, open your way into hate'shift malice,
05:53And in truth is God's great praise,
05:58He can come to him and speak to the Lord of his name.
06:07For the Lord is gracious, his mercy is everlasting,
06:17and his truth and glory from generation to generation.
06:30Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost,
06:41as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be,
06:50world without end. Amen.
07:09Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness.
07:18According to the multitude of thy masters,
07:24throw away my offenses.
07:27Wash me truly from thy wickedness,
07:33and lend me from thy sin.
07:36For I have knowledge my thoughts,
07:41and my sin is ever before me.
07:47And let me only have I sin,
07:51and God makes evil in thy sight,
07:55that thou mightest be justified in thy sin,
07:59and fear when thou art judged.
08:04Dear Lord, I was shaken in wickedness,
08:10and in sin, let my Father come speak with me.
08:15But, lo, I requirest truth in thee in your heart,
08:21and shalt make me to understand wisdom secretly.
08:29Thou shalt hurt me with his hope,
08:32and I shall be clean.
08:35Thou shalt wash me,
08:37and I shall be whiter than snow.
08:41Thou shalt make me hear your joy and gladness,
08:46Thou shalt make me hear your joy and gladness.
08:54Thou shalt make me hear your joy and gladness.
09:02Thou shalt make me hear your joy and gladness.
09:10Thou shalt make me hear your joy and gladness.
09:12Thou shalt make me hear your joy and gladness.
09:16And take on thy holy spirit, Father.
09:23Forgive me the comfort of thy heaven, and starnish me with thy free spirit.
09:34Then shall I teach thy ways unto the wither, and still shall be converted unto thee.
09:46Deliver me from blood, guiltiness, O God, thou that art the God of my head, and my tongue shall see
09:57of thy righteousness.
10:00Thou shalt open my lips, O Lord, and my mouth shall show thy praise.
10:08For thou desirest no sacrifice, else could I be with thee, but thou delightest not in God and of my
10:21hands.
10:22The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit, a broken and contrite heart, O God, shall thou not disguise.
10:33Thou shalt open my eyes, O God, thou be faithful and gracious unto Zion, build the robbers of Jerusalem.
10:46Then shall thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness, with the burnt offerings and the nations.
10:55Then shall live of a young woman, a young woman, a young woman, a young woman, a young woman, a
11:03young woman.
11:05Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost,
11:15As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be.
11:22And without end. Amen.
11:39The Gospel according to St. Matthew, Chapter 2
11:46After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, in the time of King Herod,
11:53wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,
11:57Where is the one who is born to be king of the Jews?
12:02We saw his star when it rose, and have come to worship him.
12:08When King Herod heard this, he was alarmed, and all of Jerusalem with him.
12:15After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law,
12:19he asked them where the Christ was due to be born.
12:25In Bethlehem of Judea, they said, for it is written this way by the prophet.
12:31And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are in no way least among the rulers of Judah.
12:37For out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.
12:45Then Herod privately summoned the wise men, and determined from them when the star had appeared.
12:53He sent them to Jerusalem and said,
12:56Go, look carefully for the child.
12:59When you find him, inform me that I also may go and worship him.
13:06After listening to the king, they left, and once again the star they had seen when it rose,
13:11led them until it stopped above the place where the child was.
13:16When they saw the star, they shouted with joy.
13:20And as they came into the house, and saw the child with Mary his mother,
13:24they bowed down and worshipped him.
13:26They opened their treasure boxes, and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
13:36But after being warned in a dream not to return to Herod,
13:39they went back by another route to their own country.
13:46After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said,
13:51Get up, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt and stay there until I tell you.
13:58For Herod is going to look for the child to kill him.
14:04Then he got up and took the child and his mother during the night, and went to Egypt.
14:10He stayed there until Herod died, and in this way what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet was
14:17fulfilled.
14:23When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he was enraged,
14:29and he sent men to kill all the children in Bethlehem, and throughout the surrounding region,
14:35from the age of two and under, according to the time he had learnt from the wise men.
14:44Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled.
14:48A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud wailing, Rachel weeping for her children,
14:56and she did not want to be comforted, because they were gone.
15:03After Herod had died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,
15:10Get up, and take the child and his mother.
15:14Go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child's life are dead.
15:20So he got up and took the child and his mother, and returned to the land of Israel.
15:27But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in the place of his father Herod,
15:33he was afraid to go there.
15:36And being warned in a dream, he went to the region of Galilee.
15:41He came to a town called Nazareth and settled there.
15:45Then what had been spoken by the prophets was fulfilled,
15:50that Jesus would be called a Nazarene.
15:55This is the word of the Lord.
15:58Thanks be to God.
16:06This one chapter contains all that St. Matthew records of the childhood of Christ.
16:15St. Mark and St. John tell us nothing, and St. Luke very little.
16:21This singular reticence has often been remarked upon, and it is certainly most noteworthy,
16:27and is only a sign of its genuine and truthfulness.
16:34A token that what these men wrote was in the deepest sense not their own.
16:41For if they had been left to themselves in the performance of the task given to them,
16:47they surely would not have restrained themselves as they had done.
16:55The Jews of the time attached great importance to child life,
17:00as is evident from the single fact that they had no less than seven different words
17:05to mark the successive ages of development from the newborn to the young man,
17:11and to omit all reference to these stages,
17:16except the slight notice of the infancy in this chapter,
17:21was certainly not according to Matthew the Jew,
17:24not what would have been expected of him had he been left to his own devices.
17:30The only explanation we can have is that he was moved or restrained by the Holy Spirit.
17:40This view is strikingly confirmed by comparison with the spurious Gospels afterwards published
17:46by men who thought they might improve upon the original records,
17:51with their childish stories as to what the boy Jesus said and did.
17:58These awkward fictions reflect the spirit of the age,
18:02but the simple records of the four evangelists mirror for us the spirit of truth.
18:09To the vulgar mind they may seem bare and defective,
18:14but all men of culture and mature judgment
18:17recognize in their simplicity and naturalness a note of manifest superiority.
18:28Much space could indeed be occupied in discussing the advantages of this reticence,
18:34but a single illustration may suggest the main thought.
18:40Let us recall for one moment the well-known picture entitled
18:43The Shadow of the Cross,
18:45designed and executed by a master,
18:48who might surely be considered qualified to illustrate in detail the life in Nazareth.
18:56We have nothing to say as to the merit of the picture as a work of art,
19:00let alone those specifically qualified to judge to speak of this.
19:07But it is not generally felt that the realism of the carpenter's shop is most painful.
19:14The eye is averted from the true obtrusive detail,
19:19while the mind gladly returns to the starkly vividness of the picture
19:24of the vague impressions made on us by the hint in the scriptures.
19:31Was it not well that our blessed Saviour should grow in retirement and seclusion?
19:36And if so, why should that seclusion be invaded?
19:41If his family was withdrawn from the eyes of man at that time,
19:45there remains the same reason why it should be withdrawn from the eyes of man for all time.
19:51And the more we think of it,
19:53the more we realise that it is better in every way
19:56that the veil should have been dropped just where it has been,
19:59that all should remain just as it was,
20:03when, with unconscious skill,
20:05the sacred artists finished their perfect sketches of the child Jesus.
20:15However, let us turn the argument around
20:18and look at it from the opposite direction.
20:22If St Matthew would tell us so little,
20:25why should he say anything at all?
20:29What was his purpose in relating what he sets out in his second chapter?
20:36We believe it must have been to show how Christ would receive.
20:41In fact, it seems to correspond to the single sentence in the fourth gospel.
20:47He came into his own and his own received him not.
20:52Only St Matthew gives a slightly wider and brighter view.
20:57He shows us not only how Jerusalem rejected him,
21:01but how the East welcomed him and Egypt sheltered him.
21:08Throughout the entire Old Testament,
21:09our attention is often called not merely to Jerusalem,
21:13which occupied the centre of the ancient world,
21:16but to the kingdoms around the boat,
21:19especially to the great empires of the East and the South.
21:23The Empire of the East,
21:25represented in succession by Chaldea,
21:28Assyria,
21:30Babylonia,
21:31Media,
21:31and Persia,
21:32and that of the South,
21:34the mighty monarchy of Egypt,
21:37which under its thirty dynasties,
21:39held a steady course alongside these.
21:44How natural then for the evangelist,
21:46whose special mission it was to connect the old with the new,
21:50to take the opportunity to show that
21:53while his own Jerusalem rejected the Messiah,
21:56the old rivals of the East and the South welcomed him.
22:01In the first chapter,
22:02the child Jesus was set out as the heir of the promise
22:05made to Abraham and his seed,
22:08and the fulfilment of a prophecy given to the chosen people.
22:12Now he is further set forth,
22:15as the one who satisfied the longing of those
22:17they had been taught to regard as their natural enemies,
22:22but now who should be looked upon as their fellow heirs
22:25with them of God's heritage,
22:28and share us in his promise in Christ by the Gospel.
22:34We can see then how the second chapter needed to complete the first,
22:38and how the two together give us a much more complete view of the Advent,
22:43as was most needed by the Jews of the period,
22:46and while it is instructive and suggestive to men of all countries and of all time.
22:53As then, the last paragraph began with,
22:57Now the birth of Jesus Christ was in this way.
23:01We may regard this as beginning with,
23:04Now the reception of Christ was on this way.
23:15According to this plan of argument,
23:19we must disregard the detail and many interesting questions,
23:23for the consideration of which is surely enough
23:26to refer many well-known and widely read books
23:28on the life of Christ.
23:31Let us instead confine ourselves to the general thoughts and suggestions
23:35which seem best fitted to bring out the spirit of today's passage as a whole.
23:41Let us then look first at the manner of his reception in Jerusalem.
23:47The city which, as the son of David,
23:50he could claim as his own.
23:53It was the very centre of the circle of Old Testament illumination.
23:58It had all possible advantages
24:01over any other place in the world
24:03for knowing when and how the Christ would come.
24:08And yet, when he did come,
24:10the people of Jerusalem knew nothing about it.
24:13They had their first intimation
24:15from strangers who had come from the Far East
24:19to seek him.
24:21Not only did they know nothing about it
24:23until they were told,
24:24but when told,
24:26they were troubled.
24:29Indifference,
24:30where we would otherwise have expected
24:32excitement and eagerness.
24:34Trouble,
24:35where we should have looked for joy.
24:42We have only to examine
24:44the contemporary records
24:46of the state of Jerusalem
24:48to understand it thoroughly
24:51and to see how exceedingly natural
24:53this reaction would have been.
24:57Those unacquainted with these records
24:59can have no idea
25:01of the gaiety and frivolity
25:03of the Jewish capital at that time.
25:07We all know, of course,
25:08something of the style
25:09and magnificence
25:10of which Herod the Great lived.
25:13But one is not apt to suppose
25:15that luxurious living
25:17was the rule
25:18amongst the people of the town.
25:20And yet,
25:21it seems to have been so.
25:25How much there was
25:27to be seen and heard
25:28in these luxuriously furnished houses
25:30and these sumptuous entertainments.
25:34In the women's apartments,
25:36we read from accounts contemporary,
25:39friends from the country
25:41would see every novelty in dress,
25:43adornment and jewellery,
25:45and have the benefit
25:47of examining themselves
25:49in mirrors.
25:53Female visitors
25:54could buy anything
25:56in Jerusalem,
25:57from a false tooth
25:58to an Arabian veil,
26:00a Persian shore,
26:02or an Indian dress.
26:06Then,
26:07after furnishing
26:09such painful evidence
26:11of Jerusalem
26:11and the moral corruption
26:13to which it led,
26:16we can conclude
26:18by looking at one of the sacred books
26:20at the time,
26:22which describes the dignity
26:24of the Jerusalemites,
26:27mentioning the wealth
26:29in which they lavished
26:30of their marriages,
26:32the ceremonies
26:33which insisted
26:34on repeated invitations
26:36to the guests
26:37for the banquet,
26:38that men inferior
26:40should not be bidden,
26:41the dress
26:42in which they appeared,
26:43the manner
26:44in which the dishes
26:45should be served,
26:46the wine
26:47in white crystal vases,
26:49the punishment
26:50of the cook
26:50who failed
26:51in his duty,
26:53and so on,
26:55from which
26:56we may
26:57place in context
26:59many
27:00of the
27:01gospel stories
27:02that we
27:03will go on
27:04to read.
27:07If things
27:08of this kind
27:09represented
27:09the dignity
27:10of the people
27:10of Jerusalem,
27:12we need not
27:13inquire further
27:14as to why
27:14they were troubled
27:15when they heard
27:16that to them
27:17had been born
27:17in Jerusalem
27:18a saviour
27:19who was Christ
27:20the Lord,
27:22a saviour
27:23who would have
27:23saved them
27:24from their sins
27:25was the very
27:26last thing
27:27that people
27:27of that kind
27:28would have wanted.
27:30Herod suited
27:31them far better,
27:32for it was he
27:33and his court
27:34that set the example
27:36of the luxury
27:37and profligacy
27:39which characterised
27:41the capital.
27:43Do not all
27:44these revelations
27:47as to the state
27:48of things
27:48in the capital
27:49of Israel
27:50set off
27:51more vividly
27:52than ever
27:53than ever
27:53the pure
27:54lustre
27:55of the quiet
27:55simple
27:56humble
27:57peaceful
27:58surroundings
27:59of the babe
28:00of Bethlehem
28:01and the boy
28:02of Nazareth.
28:04Put the dignity
28:05and the trouble
28:06of Jerusalem
28:07over against
28:08the humility
28:08and peace
28:09of Bethlehem
28:10and say
28:11which is the more
28:12dignified
28:13and desirable.
28:15when we look
28:16at the contrast
28:17we cease
28:18to wonder
28:18that with the
28:19exception
28:20of a very few
28:21devout
28:21Simeons
28:22and Annas
28:23waiting
28:24for the
28:24consolation
28:25of Israel
28:26Jerusalem
28:27as a whole
28:28was deeply
28:29troubled
28:30to hear the
28:31rumour
28:31of the advent
28:32of her
28:33saviour king.
28:38Herod's
28:38trouble
28:38we can so
28:40readily understand
28:41that we did
28:42not need to
28:42spend much
28:43more time
28:44over it
28:45or over
28:46what he did
28:46to try and
28:47get rid of it
28:47so thoroughly
28:49in keeping
28:49as it was
28:51with all that
28:51history tells
28:52us of his
28:53character
28:53and conduct.
28:56No wonder
28:57that his one
28:57thought on his
28:58mind was
28:59dispose of him.
29:01But who
29:02were these
29:03truly dignified
29:04men
29:04who are now
29:05turning their
29:06backs on rich
29:07and gay
29:07Jerusalem
29:08and setting
29:09their faces
29:10to the
29:10obscurity
29:11and poverty
29:12of the
29:13village of
29:13Bethlehem?
29:16They
29:17were men
29:18of wealth
29:18and rank
29:19and learning
29:20from the
29:20Far East
29:21representative
29:22of all
29:22that is best
29:23in the old
29:24civilisations
29:25of the world.
29:27They had
29:28only the
29:28scantest
29:29opportunities
29:30of learning
29:30what was
29:31the hope
29:32of Israel
29:33how it
29:34should be
29:34realised
29:35but they
29:36were earnest
29:36men
29:37and their
29:37minds
29:38were not
29:38taken up
29:39with gaiety
29:39and frivolity.
29:41They had
29:42studied the
29:43works of
29:43nature
29:43until their
29:44souls were
29:45full of
29:46the thoughts
29:46of God
29:47in his
29:47glory and
29:48majesty
29:49but their
29:50hearts
29:50yearned
29:51for knowledge
29:52of it.
29:57Whose
29:57glory
29:58was in
29:58heavens
29:59who
30:00could
30:00stoop
30:00to
30:00cure
30:01the
30:01ills
30:01that
30:02flesh
30:02is
30:02heir
30:03to.
30:04They
30:05had
30:05heard
30:05through
30:06of
30:07Israel's
30:07hope
30:08the
30:08hope
30:08of a
30:09child
30:09to be
30:10born
30:10of
30:10David's
30:11race
30:11who
30:12would
30:12bring
30:12divine
30:13mercy
30:13near to
30:14human
30:14need.
30:15They
30:15had a
30:16vague
30:16idea
30:16that
30:17the
30:17time
30:17for
30:17fulfilment
30:18of
30:18that
30:18hope
30:19was
30:19coming
30:20near
30:20and
30:21as
30:21they
30:21mused
30:22they
30:22behold
30:23a
30:24marvellous
30:24appearance
30:25in the
30:25heavens
30:25which
30:26called
30:26them
30:26away
30:27to
30:27seek
30:27him
30:27whom
30:28their
30:29souls
30:29desired.
30:31Hence
30:32their long
30:33journey to
30:33Jerusalem
30:34and
30:35their
30:35eager
30:35entrance
30:36into
30:36Bethlehem.
30:38Had
30:39their
30:39dignity
30:39been the
30:40kind of
30:40dignity
30:41which was
30:41boasted
30:42of in
30:42Jerusalem
30:42they
30:44would
30:44no doubt
30:44have been
30:44offended
30:45by the
30:45poverty
30:46of the
30:46surroundings
30:47the
30:48poor
30:49house
30:49with its
30:50scanty
30:50furniture
30:51and its
30:52humble
30:52occupiers
30:54but
30:55theirs
30:55was a
30:56true
30:56dignity
30:56of mind
30:57and soul
30:57and so
30:58they were
30:59not offended
30:59by their
31:00surroundings
31:00they
31:01recognised
31:01in them
31:02the
31:02humble
31:03child
31:03as the
31:04object
31:04of their
31:04search
31:05and
31:06bowed
31:06before
31:07him
31:07paying
31:08homage
31:08presenting
31:09to him
31:10gifts
31:10as a
31:11tribute
31:11from the
31:12east
31:12to the
31:13coming
31:13king
31:13of
31:14righteousness
31:14and
31:15love
31:18and
31:18what a
31:19beautiful
31:19picture
31:19how
31:20striking
31:20the
31:21contrast
31:21to the
31:22magnificence
31:23of
31:24Herod
31:24the
31:24great
31:24in
31:25Jerusalem
31:26surrounding
31:27by his
31:28wealthy
31:28and
31:29luxurious
31:29court
31:31verily
31:32these
31:32were
31:33wise
31:33men
31:33from
31:34the
31:34east
31:34wise
31:35with
31:35the
31:35wisdom
31:36not
31:36of
31:36this
31:37world
31:37wise
31:38to
31:38recognise
31:39the
31:39hope
31:39of
31:40the
31:40future
31:40not
31:41in
31:41a
31:41monarch
31:41called
31:42the
31:42great
31:42surrounded
31:43by
31:44pomp
31:44and
31:44luxury
31:45but
31:46in
31:46the
31:46fresh
31:46young
31:47life
31:47of
31:47the
31:48holy
31:48heavenborn
31:48child
31:50learned
31:51learned
31:51learned
31:51they
31:52were
31:52they
31:52had
31:53simple
31:53hearts
31:53they
31:54had
31:54some
31:54glimpse
31:55of
31:55the
31:55great
31:55truth
31:56that
31:57it
31:57is
31:57not
31:57learning
31:58the
31:58world
31:58needs
31:58so much
31:59as
31:59life
32:00new
32:00life
32:01would
32:02that
32:02all
32:02the
32:03wise
32:03men
32:03of
32:04today
32:04be
32:05equally
32:05wise
32:06in
32:06heart
32:09we
32:09can
32:09rejoice
32:10that
32:10many
32:10of
32:11them
32:11are
32:11but
32:12if
32:12only
32:13all
32:13of
32:13them
32:13had
32:13true
32:14wisdom
32:14they
32:15were
32:15considered
32:15that
32:16even
32:16those
32:16who
32:16stand
32:17as
32:17high
32:17in
32:17the
32:18learning
32:18of
32:18the
32:18new
32:18west
32:19as
32:19the
32:20men
32:20did
32:20in
32:20the
32:20learning
32:21of
32:21the
32:21old
32:21east
32:22would
32:23do
32:23themselves
32:23an
32:24honour
32:24in
32:25bowing
32:25low
32:25in
32:25the
32:26presence
32:26of
32:26the
32:26holy
32:27child
32:28and
32:28acknowledge
32:29that
32:29by
32:30no
32:30effort
32:30of
32:31the
32:31greatest
32:31intellect
32:32is
32:33it
32:33possible
32:33to
32:33reach
32:34that
32:34truth
32:34which
32:35can
32:36alone
32:36meet
32:37the
32:37deepest
32:37want
32:37of
32:38man
32:40that
32:40there
32:40is
32:41no
32:41other
32:41hope
32:41for
32:41man
32:42than
32:42the
32:43new
32:43birth
32:43the
32:44fresh
32:44pure
32:44holy
32:45life
32:45which
32:46came
32:46into
32:46the
32:46world
32:47when
32:47Christ
32:47was
32:48born
32:48and
32:49which
32:49comes
32:50into
32:50every
32:50heart
32:51that
32:52in
32:52the
32:52simple
32:52trustfulness
32:54gives
32:55him
32:55a
32:55welcome
32:55as
32:56did
32:56these
32:57wise
32:57men
32:57of
32:58old
32:59there
33:00at
33:00the
33:00threshold
33:01of
33:01the
33:01gospel
33:01we
33:02see
33:02the
33:02true
33:03relation
33:03of
33:03science
33:04and
33:04religion
33:06let
33:07knowledge
33:07grow
33:08from
33:08more
33:08to
33:09more
33:09but
33:10more
33:10of
33:10reverence
33:11in
33:11us
33:11dwell
33:12that
33:13mind
33:13and
33:14soul
33:14according
33:15well
33:15may
33:16make
33:16one
33:17music
33:17as
33:18before
33:21all
33:22honor
33:22to
33:22these
33:22wise
33:23men
33:23for
33:24bending
33:24low
33:24in
33:25the
33:25presence
33:25of
33:25the
33:26holy
33:26child
33:26and
33:27thanks
33:27be
33:28to
33:28God
33:28for
33:28allowing
33:29his
33:29servant
33:29Matthew
33:30to
33:30give
33:31us
33:31a
33:31glimpse
33:31of
33:32a scene
33:32so
33:32beautiful
33:33so
33:34touching
33:34so
33:35suggestive
33:36of
33:36pure
33:36high
33:37and
33:37holy
33:38thought
33:38and
33:39feeling
33:42the
33:43gifts
33:44of the
33:44east
33:44no doubt
33:45provided the
33:46means of
33:47securing a
33:47refuge in
33:48the south
33:49and the
33:49west
33:51that
33:52Egypt
33:52gave the
33:53fugitives
33:53a friendly
33:54welcome
33:54a safe
33:55retreat
33:56so long
33:56as the
33:57danger
33:57remained
33:58is obvious
34:00but
34:00here
34:01again
34:02we are
34:03left
34:03without
34:03detail
34:05the
34:06one
34:06thing
34:06which
34:06the
34:07evangelist
34:07wishes
34:08to
34:08impress
34:08upon
34:09us
34:09is the
34:10parallel
34:10between
34:10the
34:11experience
34:11of
34:11Israel
34:12and
34:12Israel's
34:13holy
34:13one
34:15Israel
34:15of the
34:16old
34:16testament
34:16born
34:17in
34:17Palestine
34:17fled
34:18to
34:18Egypt
34:20when
34:20the
34:20time
34:21was
34:21right
34:21for
34:22return
34:22the
34:23way
34:23was
34:23opened
34:24for
34:24it
34:24and
34:24the
34:24prophet
34:24speaks
34:25of
34:25it
34:25in
34:25the
34:25name
34:26of
34:26the
34:26Lord
34:27when
34:27Israel
34:28was
34:28a
34:28child
34:29then
34:29I
34:29loved
34:29him
34:29and
34:30I
34:30called
34:30my
34:31son
34:31out
34:31of
34:31Egypt
34:33now
34:34that
34:34the
34:34holy
34:34one
34:34of
34:34Israel
34:35has
34:35come
34:35to
34:35fulfill
34:36old
34:36Israel's
34:37destiny
34:37the
34:39prophetic
34:39word
34:40which
34:40had only
34:41been
34:41partially
34:41realized
34:42in the
34:42history
34:43of the
34:43nation
34:43is
34:44fulfilled
34:45in the
34:45history
34:45of the
34:46anointed
34:46one
34:48so
34:48just
34:49as
34:49it
34:50had
34:50happened
34:50with
34:51the
34:51nation
34:51so
34:52it
34:52happens
34:53with
34:53the
34:53nation's
34:53representative
34:54and true
34:55king
34:55born
34:56in
34:57his
34:57own
34:57land
34:57he
34:58fled
34:58to
34:59Egypt
34:59remaining
35:00there
35:00until
35:01God
35:01brought
35:01him
35:02out
35:02and
35:03set
35:03him
35:03in
35:03his
35:04land
35:04once
35:05more
35:08other
35:09points
35:09of
35:09agreement
35:10with
35:10the
35:10prophetic
35:10word
35:11are
35:11mentioned
35:11and
35:12it
35:13is
35:13worthy
35:13of
35:13note
35:13that
35:14they
35:14are
35:14all
35:14connected
35:15with
35:15the
35:15dark
35:15side
35:16of
35:16the
35:16prophecy
35:16concerning
35:17the
35:17Messiah
35:19but
35:20the
35:20reason
35:20for
35:20this
35:21will
35:21surely
35:22appear
35:22to
35:22us
35:22on
35:23reflection
35:24the
35:25scribes
35:25and
35:26the
35:26Pharisees
35:26were
35:26insistent
35:27enough
35:27on
35:27the
35:27bright
35:28side
35:28the
35:29side
35:29that
35:29favoured
35:29their
35:30ideas
35:30of
35:30a
35:30great
35:31king
35:31who
35:32had
35:32rescued
35:32the
35:32people
35:33from
35:33the
35:33Roman
35:33yoke
35:34and
35:34found
35:35a
35:35great
35:35worldwide
35:36kingdom
35:37after
35:38the
35:38manner
35:38of
35:39Herod
35:39the
35:39great
35:39or
35:40of
35:40Caesar
35:40the
35:41mighty
35:42so
35:43there
35:43was
35:43no
35:43need
35:44to
35:44bring
35:44strongly
35:45out
35:45that
35:45side
35:48the
35:48glories
35:48of
35:49the
35:49coming
35:49king
35:50but
35:51the
35:51sad
35:51side
35:51had
35:52been
35:52entirely
35:52neglected
35:53it
35:54is
35:54this
35:55accordingly
35:55which
35:56our
35:56evangelist
35:57today
35:58is
35:58prompted
35:59to
35:59illustrate
36:05it
36:05was
36:06indeed
36:06in
36:06itself
36:07an
36:07occasion
36:07of
36:08stumbling
36:08that
36:09the
36:09king
36:09of
36:09Israel
36:10should
36:10have
36:10to
36:10flee
36:11to
36:11Egypt
36:12but
36:13why
36:13should
36:13one
36:13stumble
36:14at
36:14it
36:14who
36:15looked
36:15at
36:15the
36:16course
36:16of
36:16Israel's
36:17history
36:17as a
36:17nation
36:18in
36:19the
36:19light
36:19the
36:19prophets
36:19threw
36:20upon
36:20it
36:22it
36:22was
36:23an
36:23occasion
36:23of
36:23stumbling
36:24that
36:24his
36:24birth
36:25in
36:25Bethlehem
36:26should
36:26bring
36:26with
36:27it
36:27such
36:27sorrow
36:27and
36:28anguish
36:28but
36:30why
36:30wonder
36:30at
36:30it
36:31when
36:31so
36:31great
36:31a
36:31prophet
36:32as
36:32Jeremiah
36:32so
36:33touchingly
36:34speaks
36:34of
36:34the
36:35voice
36:35heard
36:35in
36:35Ramah
36:37Rachel
36:38weeping
36:38for
36:39her
36:39children
36:39and
36:40would
36:40not
36:41be
36:41comforted
36:44a
36:44thought
36:45of
36:45exquisite
36:45beauty
36:46and
36:46pathos
36:47as
36:47Jeremiah
36:48used
36:48it
36:49in
36:49reference
36:49to
36:49the
36:50banished
36:50ones
36:50of
36:51his
36:51day
36:52but
36:53of
36:53still
36:53deeper
36:54pathos
36:54as
36:55is
36:55fulfilled
36:56in
36:57the
36:57sorrow
36:57at
36:58Ramah
36:58over
36:59the
36:59massacre
36:59of
37:00her
37:00innocence
37:01when
37:02not
37:02Israel
37:03but
37:04Israel's
37:05holy
37:05one
37:05is
37:06banished
37:07from
37:07the
37:07land
37:07of
37:07his
37:08birth
37:10again
37:10it
37:11was
37:11an
37:12occasion
37:12of
37:12stumbling
37:13that
37:13the
37:13king
37:14of
37:14Israel
37:14instead
37:14of
37:15growing
37:15up
37:15in
37:15majesty
37:16in
37:16the
37:16midst
37:17of
37:17the
37:17court
37:17in
37:17the
37:17capital
37:19should
37:19retire
37:20into
37:20obscurity
37:21in the
37:22little
37:22village
37:22of
37:23Nazareth
37:23and
37:24for
37:24many
37:24years
37:25unheard
37:26of
37:26by
37:26the
37:27great
37:27ones
37:27of
37:27the
37:28land
37:30but
37:30why
37:30wonder
37:31at
37:31it
37:31when
37:32the
37:32prophets
37:32again
37:32and
37:33again
37:33represent
37:34him
37:34as
37:34growing
37:35up
37:35in
37:35this
37:36very
37:36way
37:36as
37:37a
37:37root
37:38out
37:38of
37:38the
37:39dry
37:39ground
37:39or
37:40as
37:40a
37:40twig
37:41to
37:42shoot
37:42from
37:42the
37:42stem
37:43of
37:43Jesse
37:43growing
37:45up
37:45out
37:45of
37:46his
37:46place
37:46and
37:47attracting
37:47no
37:48attention
37:48while
37:49he
37:49grew
37:51such
37:52is
37:52the
37:52meaning
37:52of
37:53the
37:53words
37:53translated
37:54he
37:54shall
37:55be
37:55called
37:55a
37:56Nazarene
37:58this
37:58does
37:58not
37:59appear
37:59in
37:59our
38:00language
38:01hence
38:01the
38:02difficulty
38:02which
38:02many
38:03have
38:03found
38:03in
38:03this
38:04reference
38:05there
38:05being
38:06no
38:06passage
38:06in
38:06any
38:07of
38:07the
38:07prophets
38:07where
38:08Christ
38:08is
38:08spoken
38:08of
38:09as
38:09a
38:09Nazarene
38:12but
38:13the
38:13word
38:13in
38:13Hebrew
38:14ears
38:14at
38:15once
38:15suggests
38:16the
38:16Hebrew
38:16for
38:17brunch
38:19continually
38:20applied
38:20to
38:21him
38:21by
38:21the
38:22prophets
38:22and
38:23especially
38:23connected
38:24with
38:24the
38:24idea
38:25of
38:25his
38:25quiet
38:25and
38:26silent
38:26growth
38:27aloof
38:28from
38:29the
38:29throng
38:29and
38:30unnoticed
38:31by the
38:31great
38:59and so
39:01world
39:02world
39:03moved
39:04and
39:05unconcerned
39:06while
39:06its
39:07saviour
39:07king
39:07prepares
39:09in
39:09the
39:09obscurity
39:11of
39:11his
39:11small
39:11village
39:12home
39:12for
39:13the
39:13great
39:14work
39:14of
39:15winning
39:15a
39:15lost
39:16world
39:16back
39:17to
39:17God
39:18and
39:20and
39:27and
39:30and
39:31the
39:32and
39:33and
39:36and
39:38We praise you, O God, and we acknowledge you to me, our Lord.
39:45All year, now, worships you, O Father, ever I have seen.
39:53Till all angels dwell, and the Son of God's name.
40:00Till all angels dwell, and the Son of God, and the Son of God, and the Son of God.
40:31Till all angels dwell, and the Son of God, and the Son of God, and the Son of God, and
40:53the Son of God.
41:00Till all angels dwell, and the Son of God, and the Son of God.
41:19Till all angels dwell, and the Son of God, and the Son of God, and the Son of God.
41:49Till all angels dwell, and the Son of God, and the Son of God.
42:19May God bless you, O God, and the Son of God.
42:31May God bless you, O God, and the Son of God.
42:44May God bless you, O God, and the Son of God.
42:56May God bless you, O God, and the Son of God.
43:12O Lord, let your mercy upon us
43:16as our trust is in you.
43:20O Lord, if you have let us say
43:24that we never be confronted.
43:37Let us pray.
43:40O Lord, who never fails to help and govern
43:44those who you bring up in your steadfast fear and love.
43:49Keep us, we beseech you,
43:51under the protection of your good providence
43:54and make us have a perpetual fear and love
43:57of your holy name.
43:59Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
44:08May the Lord bless us and keep us from all evil,
44:13bringing us to everlasting life.
44:15Amen.