Written by M.C. Steenberg.
At the centre of the Nativity icon is a mystery. In the blackness of the cave, the eternal Son of the Father is born in the flesh. The unchanging Lord takes human form and life, and is made fully man of His Virgin Mother. When the time had come for all things to be accomplished, the Son came unto His own creation from a cave. The ‘light that shone in the darkness’, which the darkness so long had not accepted, ‘took flesh and dwelt amongst us’ and was now at last received—into the arms of an expectant mother.
