This Sunday I closed out our 'Mystical Christmas' series by looking at St. Nicholas, who received a mystical encounter from Christ after Nick's temper tantrum at the Council of Nicaea.
Church Father John Chrysostom wrote that the star of Bethlehem was no ordinary star because that which it illumined was exceptionally ordinary. Here's a sermon on Matthew 2.1-12 in which I try to filter Chrysostom through a recent trip on an airplane.