
O Great Little One! O Great Advent!
The highest aim of Advent is to revive the deep memory of a God whose Incarnation gave hope to the world.
The highest aim of Advent is to revive the deep memory of a God whose Incarnation gave hope to the world.
It all began in a little room in Nazareth, where an angel and a girl met to decide the fate of the universe.
SAINTS & ART: For humanity, today is a new creation. Today, humanity was made anew.
“The Church communicates salvation first of all by keeping and proclaiming the two great mysteries of the Trinity and the Incarnation, which are like the two ‘primary sacraments,’ and then through administration of the other sacraments.” —Pope Benedict XVI
Christmas may well be one of those childish trifles we’re expected to put away when we grow up – but why then does the wish strangely persist?
We worship a God who became man, suffered death and was buried — and rose again from the grave.
In the light of the Incarnation, nothing — especially higher education — can be seen in the same way.
“God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness, freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. … To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Savior.” (CCC 1)
Like the arms of the colonnade surrounding St. Peter’s, Christ longs to embrace the entire human race.
Saying yes to the incarnate God ought to be the easiest thing in the world to do.
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