This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our daily Rosary meditation.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Over this next month we'll see many scenes of the Christ

child in the manger of Mary holding the baby Jesus and we need to let the beauty of the baby Jesus in the

manger draws to our own transformation in this advent.

Now one way of describing beauty is to say that it is the unification of what is naturally

separate. We love the thrill of seeing two things which we don't normally

associate coming together in a striking beauty.

Each one of the arts show us this unification of what's separate,

this convergence of opposites.

In music, we love a duet in which a woman's high voice blends with

the man's low voice. In stories we have the basic fairy tale form of a poor

farmers boy marrying a princess or a poor

housemaid marrying the king's son. In color artists have designed a color

wheel so they can combine colors from opposite ends of the spectrum.

When the division, the separation between two unrelated or distant things has been overcome, we have an insight into the primordial

unification of reality which we call beauty, which is why nothing is more beautiful than the Christ child in the crib

at Bethlehem, because nowhere else is division so absolutely overcome.

Our Father who art in heaven,

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