To Be Born Again

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
— John 3:3–8

Now is not the season to be crucified with Christ but to be born with Christ. Let us therefore be still, that we hear the sound of the Spirit, and say, Be it unto me according to thy word.

Jesus, Mary, Joseph

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Listened to Fidelio (Toscanini, Bampton, Peerce, Steber, 1944).