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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
• "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
•
Spiritual Reading for
Christmas
and Epiphany Season
• 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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