“The name given to the Child at His Birth was Emmanuel, ‘God with us.’ It is still the name that best tells us what, during the reign of Caesar Augustus, the Nativity was about.”
— Fr. James V. Schall, The Reason for the Seasons:Why Christians Celebrate What and When They Do
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