This day has been made holy for us by the day who made all days; the day about whom there is a song in the psalm, ‘Sing to the Lord a new song, sing to the Lord all the earth. Sing to the Lord and bless his name, rightly declare day from day his salvation’ (Ps. xcv, i). Who can this day from day be, if not the Son from the Father, light from light? But that day who begot the day that would be born of the virgin this day, that day has no dawning, has no dusk. The day I mean is God the Father. Jesus after all would not be day from day, unless the Father Were also day. What is day anyhow? Simply light; but now not material light for material eyes, which is shared by men and beasts, but light which shines on angels, light which our hearts are now being scrubbed and polished for a sight of. This night is soon over which we are now living in, in which the lamps of scripture have been lit for us, and soon what another psalm sings of will be here, ‘In the morning I will stand before you and gaze upon you’ (Ps. v, 5).

And so that day which is the Word of God, who shines on the angels, who shines in that mother country we are exiles from, that day clothed himself in flesh and was born of the virgin Mary.