O magnum mysterium,
et admirabile sacramentum,
ut animalia viderent Dominum natum,
iacentem in praesepio!
Beata Virgo, cujus viscera
meruerunt portare
Dominum Iesum Christum.
Alleluia!
O great mystery,
and wonderful sacrament,
that animals should see the newborn Lord,
lying in a manger!
Blessed is the virgin whose womb
was worthy to bear
the Lord, Jesus Christ.
Alleluia!
Anyone who reads my blog knows I like animals. I think they, oxen and donkeys, specifically, being mentioned as the witnesses to the birth of Jesus was to show that all flesh was included in the covenant, just as God told Noah that they were included in the one at the end of the arc narrative. Though that is where God also is said to have allowed the eating of animals for the first time. But God didn't require it in the story.
I think with Covid-19 being just the latest human pandemic disease that started in the animal husbandry industry, the cruel and notorious wet-markets in China this time instead of some pig operation in Kansas or Iowa or some egg factory in Maine or elsewhere, the strain of Covid-19 that mutated in the cruel and notorious mink industry in Denmark and the United States, we're on notice about the consequences of cruelty to animals and keeping them in concentration camp death camps.
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