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“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.
This is the precise challenge we face: to make the Incarnation believable to the men and women of our time.
This week, we are especially reminded that the Maker of the universe “became his own making” — and that Christ and his saints were born in order to die.
Christ himself revealed the deepest truths through the telling of stories, and we are meant to do the same.
Amid the silence of the stars, God truly comes into our world — an event that renders everything different.
The Mérode Altarpiece abounds in theological symbolism.
Why would God, Creator of the universe, choose to become a creature like us?
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