Caryll Houselander: "Dengan kehendaknya sendiri, Kristus bergantung pa...

"Dengan kehendaknya sendiri, Kristus bergantung pada Maria selama masa Advent: dia sama sekali tidak berdaya; dia bisa ke mana-mana tetapi ke mana dia memilih untuk membawanya; dia tidak bisa berbicara; Napasnya adalah napasnya; jantungnya berdetak kencang dalam detak jantungnya .... Pada musim-masa Advent kita - bangun, bekerja, makan, tidur, sedang - setiap nafas adalah nafas Kristus ke dunia."

--- Caryll Houselander

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By his own will Christ was dependent on Mary during Advent: he was absolutely helpless; he could go nowhere but where she chose to take him; he could not speak; her breathing was his breath; his heart beat in the beating of her heart.... In the seasons of our Advent - waking, working, eating, sleeping, being - each breath is a breathing of Christ into the world.