To everyone....
A blessed Christmas to all! I send special greetings to William Luse, who e-mailed me the compliments of the season. (Bill, I tried to e-mail back twice, but the messages both failed ! Sorry !)

" 'The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us;' this is the glorious, unsearchable, incomprehensible Truth, on which all our hopes for the future depend, and which we have now been commemorating. It is the wonderful Economy of Redemption, by which God became man, the Highest became the lowest, the Creator took His place among His own creatures, Power became weakness, and Wisdom looked to men like folly. He that was rich was made poor; the Lord of all was rejected: 'He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.' This, I say, is the grand mystery of the season..." - Venerable John Henry Newman, C.O.