On the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ - St. Nikolai Velimirović & St. Justin Popović

Christ is born! Glorify Him!   A Reading of the Prologue of Ochrid by St. Nikolai Velimirović and a homily on the Nativity by St. Justin Popović   0:11 Prologue of Ochrid by St. Nikolai Velimirović  0:23 On the Nativity  3:17 Hymn of Praise  4:50 Reflection  7:06 Contemplation  7:26 Homily   9:22 Homily by St. Justin Popović   “Out of burning love, Thou didst come down from heaven; from eternal beauty, Thou didst descend into monstrous pain; from eternal light, Thou didst descend into the thick darkness of evil. Thou didst extend Thy holy hand to those choked in sin. Heaven was amazed, the earth quaked. Welcome, O Christ! O ye people, rejoice!” -from Hymn of Praise by St. Nikolai   “The Lord was born in a cave to show that the whole world is one dark cave, which He alone can illumine.” -St. Nikolai   “By celebrating Christmas, we essentially confess and glorify the only true meaning and reason of human existence, human spirit, human thought, human sense, human life. Because on the day of the Birth of the Lord, “it was the light of knowledge that dawned on the world", of divine conception, and filled the entire world to its very ends, and revealed to us the eternal meaning and reason of this world and of the human being that is in this world.” -St. Justin   Orthodox Wisdom is dedicated to sharing the writings and lives of the Saints of the Orthodox Church. Glory to Jesus Christ!