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(LifeSiteNews) – As the old carols of the Christmas season remind the Christian soul, the little town of Bethlehem points, finally, to Jerusalem, and the wood of the manger foreshadows the Cross. In fact, the Cross is already present when Christ is born: He comes forth in the cold of a bleak mid-winter and the darkness of a silent night. He is born in the obscurity of a hillside cave, with the breath of the ox and ass to warm Him. Placed before the manger, the adoring caroler, in wonder, sings,
Why lies He in such mean estate, where ox and ass are feeding?
Good Christians, fear, for sinners here the silent Word is pleading.
Nails, spears shall pierce him through, the Cross be born for me, for you.
Hail, hail the Word made flesh, the Babe, the Son of Mary.
The latter words of this beautiful and well-known carol, “What Child is This”, have been struck from many modern versions, as have other references in other old carols to the Cross, original sin, and the misery of
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