Christmas Night
A homily by Fr. Athanasius Mitilinaios, delivered on Christmas Day in the year 2000.
When God the Word was creating the universe, my dearly beloved, he designated a moment in time when He Himself would visibly visit it. This great visit is the Incarnation of God the Word. His presence on Earth rendered it the center of the created, visible world. The Incarnation is the greatest event in the visible and invisible created world, before which even the angels were...