“The Easter story told once again in our recent celebration of the Holy Triduum began with God’s “quarantine.”
Yes, our Lord spent forty days within the desert and without food or human company during that period. But that was merely the crystallization of the fact that by means of His Incarnation, His taking on our flesh, our Lord quarantined Himself, locked Himself voluntarily by means of His human nature, totally within the reality of our humanity, with all the consequences of our sins including death.
God imprisoned Himself within the reign of sin and death to save us. No one outdoes the Lord in His humility and solidarity with us.
God died.”
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Growing in the Fear of the Lord – A Homily for the 33rd Sunday of the Year
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The past few Sundays have featured the November theme of the Four Last
Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell. In today’s Gospel we are
reminded that ...
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