Sermon for the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas: - The Birth, Time and a Loaf of Ciabatta

Georges de la Tour
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Musée du Louvre

From the Introit of the Mass: Dum medium silentium tenerent omnia, et nox in suo cursu medium iter haberet, omnipotens sermo tuus, Domine, de caelis a regalibus sedibus venit.

While all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course, Thine almighty Word leaped down from thy royal Throne.