
A Christmas Icon
by Brent Kostyniuk In you, O Full of Grace, all creation rejoices: the angelic ranks and all the human race. Sanctified temple and spiritual paradise, virgins’ pride and boast, from whom God is made flesh and became a little Child; and He Who is our God before the ages, He made your womb a throne, and He made it wider than all the heavens. In you, O Full of Grace, all creation rejoices. Glory be to you. (Irmos of the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great) Whether your Christian heritage is from the West or the East, there are…