Firstborn of all creation

O come, let us adore him!

From our house to yours ...

Gingerbread replica of the Archabbey Church
constructed by Brs. Kolbe, Joel, and John Mark

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

O Emmanuel

The new birth of Advent

Unless Christ, by being made in the likeness of sinful flesh, had taken on himself the nature of our first parents, unless he had stooped to be one in substance with his mother while sharing the Father’s substance and, being alone free from sin, united our nature to his, the whole human race would still be held captive under the dominion of Satan. The Conqueror’s victory would have profited us nothing if the battle had been fought outside our human condition. But through this wonderful blending, the mystery of new birth shone upon us, so that through the same Spirit by whom Christ was conceived and brought forth, we too might be born again in a spiritual birth.

-- Pope St. Leo the Great