Born In Bethlehem

Factum est autem cum essent ibi, impleti sunt dies ut pareret... Bene non solum propter indicium regii stemmatis, sed et propter nominis sacramentum Dominus in Bethleem nascitur. Bethleem namque domus panis interpretatur. Ipse namque est, qui ait: Ego sum panis vivus, qui de coelo descendi. Locus ergo in quo Dominus nasceretur domus panis ante vocatus est, quia futurum profecto erat ut ille ibi per materiam carnis appareret, qui electorum mentes interna satietate reficeret. Sed usque hodie, et usque ad consummationem saeculi, Dominus in Nazareth concipi, nasci in Bethleem non desinit, cum quilibet audientium, verbi flore suscepto, domum se aeterni panis efficit. Quotidie in utero virginali, hoc est in animo credentium per fidem concipitur, per baptisma gignitur. Quotidie Dei genitrix Ecclesia suum comitata doctorem, de rota mundanae conversationis quod Galilaea sonat, in civitatem Juda, confessionis, videlicet, et laudis ascendens, censum suae devotionis aeterno regi persolvit. Sanctus Beda, In Lucae Evangelium Expositio, Liber I, Caput II Source: Migne PL 92.330c

And it was while they were there that the days were fulfilled when she should give birth... 1 And this was good, for the Lord was born in Bethlehem not only as a sign of the lineage for the kingdom but even for the name of the sacrament. For Bethlehem translated means 'house of bread,' and He is the one who says, 'I am the bread of life that has come down from heaven.' 2 Therefore the place in which the Lord was to be born was called beforehand the house of bread, because undoubtedly in the future He was to appear there in the flesh, He who refreshes the souls of the elect with internal satisfaction. And even today, and even to the end of the ages, the Lord is conceived in Nazareth and born in Bethlehem, when anyone who hears and takes up the bloom of the word is himself fashioned into a house of the eternal bread. Every day in the virginal womb, that is, in the soul of the faithful, He is conceived by faith and grows by baptism. Every day the mother of God, His own Church, accompanied by the teacher, from the wheel of worldly activity, which is what Galilee means, going into a city of Judah, liberates in confession, with praise going up to the eternal kingdom from the treasury of devotion. Saint Bede, Commentary On The Gospel of Saint Luke, Book 1, Chapter 2 1 Lk 2.6 2 Jn 6.51