For the Alleluia versicle of the Mass of the Aurora for Christmas Day, the Church has chosen the opening words of Psalm 92: ‘The Lord hath reigned, he is clothed with beauty: the Lord is clothed with strength and hath girded himself with power'. It is with the beauty of our humanity that the Lord has clothed himself today: he has put on the weakness of a child; but he has reigned, the Lord has reigned from the crib, just as he was to reign from the cross, and now reigns in heaven. Like Moses in the ark, today the Lord is found in a crib; and as the Son is counted of greater worth than the servant, so he will lead the new Israel into the Promised Land; for ‘from Egypt I have called my Son'.

It was in an ark that Moses was found; and in an ark that Noe sailed over the waters of the great flood, both, Moses and Noe, bearing with them the seeds of new life.