Of the Father's Love Begotten

Prudentius (d. 413)

The season of the Nativity has rung with the merriment of gifts and feasts, but it’s more than a season of pleasure.  It’s made the mountains reecho with songs of joy, and yet, when we think of the event, it is dark night, an evil king lurks in the shadows with murder in his heart, and after the wise men have come to give the child their homage, the Hol…