A Sword Shall Pierce Your Own Soul Also

Text for discussion: Luke 2. 

 

Everything mentioned in the narrative of the birth of Christ has significance from beginning to end.  In this one we join the shepherds by the manger . . . . 

 

Hymns: What Child is This, On My Heart Imprint Your Image, We Praise you, O God, Eternal Father, Strong to Save, The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

Art: Public domain, John Singleton Copley, "The Nativity" dated, 1776-1777.