Was the incarnation only a 33-year experiment, a one-shot incursion by God into human history? No! The marvel of the mystery is that God took on human flesh and has never since ceased to have human flesh.
In St. Paul’s words, We are the body of Christ. We don’t replace Christ’s historical body, we are not like his body, nor are we even his mystical body, we are his body; flesh, blood, tangible, in history, and to the extent that we live in grace, the on-going incarnation, God in flesh in history.
--Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI
Facebook, October 23, 2019
Image source: Icon of the face of Christ, Church of the Assumption, Deptford, http://www.rcsouthwark.co.uk/paul_deptford.htm
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