“Leap before Him. If not like John from the womb, yet like David, because of the resting of the Ark.
Revere the enrollment on account of which thou wast written in heaven.
And adore the Birth by which thou wast loosed from the chains of thy birth, and honor little Bethlehem, which hath led thee back to Paradise.
Bear thy Gifts with the Magi, gold and frankincense and myrrh, as to a King, and to God, and to One Who is dead for thee.
With Shepherds glorify Him.
With Angels join in chorus.
With Archangels sing hymns.”
-Gregory Nazianzus, “Oration 38,” in A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, Second Series: S. Cyril of Jerusalem, S. Gregory Nazianzus, ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace, trans. Charles Gordon Browne and James Edward Swallow, vol. 7 (New York: Christian Literature Company, 1894), 7: 351.
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