Relating to Resurrection
Why is the Friday that God was tortured and died called "Good"? For Christians it is because by God's suffering and death we are given life; we who were once aliens and orphaned by Death are now adopted by Life. Only God could reach down Death's throat and pull out Life; for He has trampled down Death by His death.Suffering, ...
Christ is not just one link in the Fullness of the Godhead's series of emanations. All the Divine Fullness dwells in Him. And not only that, but the Divine Fullness dwells in Him bodily. It is not, as the Gnostics asserted, that the true Divine Nature would not deign to soil Itself with contact with the bodily; corruptible world. On ...
18And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. 19For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by ...
A Handbook for LentLent is a penitential season of the Christian Year, forty days in length, in which Christians focus on repentance and personal devotion in light of the coming celebration of Christ's resurrection at Easter. The forty-day period alludes to many Scriptural events which are important in salvation history: the forty days of the flood; the forty-year Exodus of ...
My wife and I are reading through a most contemplation evoking paper presently on the Eucharist that has sparked a great wonder and awe of God in me. Traditionally, we have thought of God as being of infinitely greater and altogether different kind of being from which we have our being analogously. Even so, one of my favorite theologians begins ...
32And they went to a place called Gethsemane. And he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” 33And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled. 34And he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch.” 35And going a little farther, he ...
"Crown him with many crowns," up our voices ring.The resplendent gold and gems circumscribed
The regal head eternally divine.
Preembodied hands, willfully took up
The majestic glory of divine right,Laying down, his golden crown, to become.To enter into time and space, walkingGrace among his created-own he moved
With kindred care, emptied of heav'nly wealth.
He came low to raise us high.We replied
By circumscribing Adam's thorny ...
