Ave Maria!— December’s Theme: Humility
“At the birth of Our Lord, the shepherds heard the divine and angelic singing of the heavenly spirits. Scripture tells us this, but it does not say that the Virgin, His Mother, and St. Joseph, who were closest to the Infant, heard the voices of the angels or saw those miraculous splendors. On the contrary, instead of hearing the angels singing, they heard the Child crying, and saw by the light of a poor lamp, the eyes of this divine Infant all wet with tears and trembling with cold.”
