It’s pretty odd, isn’t it? In our age in which all sorts of things having to do with our private parts are shouted from TikTok and blared from the YouTube channel, we really don’t talk about the mystery of the Circumcision of Christ.
Yet, for a millennium or so, the Octave or eighth day of Christmas, January 1 was celebrated in the Latin Rite as the Feast of the Circumcision. It still is on the older Latin Rite calendar, the Eastern Catholic and Eastern Orthodox calendars, and even the calendars of Anglicans and Lutherans. Today, the feast on the modern Latin Rite calendar clearly recalls the Circumcision, but the feast itself is known as the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, in continuity with the name of the feast in ancient Rome. It is indeed a mystery that has intrigued Christians throughout history. What is mysterious about it?
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