Br. Nicholas Hartman, O.P., on God Renewing the World as Depicted in Christmas Carol

"The first time I listened to In the Bleak Midwinter, I rolled my eyes when I heard in the first verse: 'Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow.' The wintery, Christmas nostalgia that played out in the repetition of 'snow' was soporific and sappy to me. There and then I took an unjust disliking to the carol and resented hearing it played or having to sing it. Eventually, I was willing to revisit my dislike, and what I found modified my opinion of the carol. 

"Originally a poem by Christina Rossetti, In the Bleak Midwinter depicts how God, by his Incarnation, brings the created world that had been wallowing in sin back to himself. . . ."

In a recent commentary, Brother Nicholas Hartman, O.P., reflected on how God, by becoming man, "renews that world and infuses it with his warmth and light."

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