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The marvel of the Incarnation is this: it enables God to worship God. God the Son in his humanity adores God the Father, with whom, in his divinity, he is coequal. What is more, this filial worship of the Father begins at the first moment of the Incarnation and has its first sanctuary in the Virgin’s womb.

Building on the testimony of the infancy narratives in the Gospels, the Fathers apply the Old Testament images of God’s presence to the Christ-carrying womb of the Virgin. It is the ultimate Temple, Tabernacle, the Palace of the Great King, the Ark of the Covenant, the Altar of Incense, the Throne of the Cherubim, the Sanctuary of God.