Fourth Sunday of ADVENT

  

 

Fourth Sunday of ADVENT

 

For it is through the Holy Spirit that this child has been conceived in her.
She will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus,

because he will save his people from their sins. - Matthew 1: 20b-21

 

Statue of Mary with Child, Spain

   

 “The modern world’s feverish struggle for unbridled,

often unlicensed, freedom is answered by the bound,

enclosed helplessness and dependence of Christ:

Christ in the womb,

Christ in the Host,

Christ in the tomb."

           

Caryll Houselander 

The Reed of God

 

 

HEEM, Jan Davidsz. de (b. 1606, Utrecht, d. 1684, Antwerpen)
Eucharist in Fruit Wreath 1648
Oil on canvas, 138 x 125,5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna