Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Gregory Thaumaturgus/Dubious or Spurious Writings/Four Homilies/Part 1

Four

Homilies.

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The First Homily.

On the Annunciation to the Holy Virgin

Mary.

are strains of

praise sung joyfully by the choir of angels, and the light of the

advent of Christ shines brightly upon the faithful. Today is the

glad spring-time to us, and Christ the Sun of righteousness has beamed

with clear light around us, and has illumined the minds of the

faithful. To-day is Adam made anew, and moves in the choir of angels, having

winged his way to heaven. To-day is the whole circle of the earth

filled with joy, since the sojourn of the Holy Spirit has been realized

to men. To-day the grace of God and the hope of the unseen shine

through all wonders transcending imagination, and make the mystery that

was kept hid from eternity plainly discernible to us. To-day are

woven the chaplets of never-fading virtue. To-day, God, willing