At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, according to St. Matthew, Jesus speaks of a wise man who built his house on rock. Rain came, floods rose, gales blew, and hurled themselves against that house, and it did not fall (7:25). Now today we hear him speaking of…
‘In those days a decree went out from the Emperor Augustus, that a census be taken of all the world. This census, the first, took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own city. And Joseph also...
