“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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A Prophet Who Prepares. A Homily for the Second Sunday of Advent
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The Second Sunday of Advent usually features the Ministry of St. John the
Baptist. He was the Prophet who fulfilled the Office of Elijah of whom it
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