Archpastoral Message of His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon on the Great Feast of the Nativity
To the clergy, monastics, and faithful of the Orthodox Church in America, beloved children in the Lord,
When it was time for thy coming upon earth, the first taxation of the world was held; and then thou madest ready to enroll the names of all who believed in thy birth. For this cause Caesar published such a decree, since thy timeless and eternal kingdom was newly made manifest.
– St. Germanus, Doxastichon at the Praises, tone six
Christ is born! Glorify him!...
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