A friend has written with a seasonal quotation from Bernard of Clairvaux's sermons on Advent:
"Who is this Virgin so reverently saluted by the angel? and so lowlyas to be espoused to a carpenter ? Beautiful commingling of virginity with humility! That soul is in no small degree pleasing toGod, in whom humility commends virginity, and virginity adorns humility. But how much more worthy of veneration is she, in whom fecundity exalts humility, and child-bearing consecrates virginity.
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