“ Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . . Mary O'Neill
“ Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place. Hans Urs von Balthasar
“ Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world. Hans Urs von Balthasar
“ The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbi… Karl Barth
