CMP Review 2026-04-19

Illustration of a nativity scene inside a church-like hall, with a baby in a cradle at a table and a crowd of onlookers surrounding them.

How many “poor country folk” came to the temple every single day? The insignificant ones, the overlooked ones, the ones who had only turtle doves or pigeons to offer to their Lord. Nothing to see here.

But one man had eyes to see. He had a promise he knew his God would keep.

So sure was he of this, he watched alway:
No common, usual group might, unaware,
Pass this man, lest so he should miss the Child:
Perceiving he was ready, the Spirit led
Him straight to the temple; and when the parents came,
The simple peasant folk, behold, he knew—
Such is the gift God granteth to His own,
Through signs of everyday they Him discern

The Spirit led in those days and the Spirit leads today. To reveal the extraordinary beneath the veil of the ordinary, the King beneath the veil of the Child. Read Charlotte Mason’s poem here.

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