NIEKADA anksčiau tai nebuvo įvykę. Į Dievo sostą, dešinę Tėvo ranką, įžengė ne cherubimai ar serafimai, nei kunigaikštystė ar valdžia, o žmogus - taip pat dieviškas, bet vis dėlto žmogus.
Our poor human nature was carried up, in Christ, above all the hosts of heaven, above all the ranks of angels, beyond the highest heavenly powers to the very throne of God the Father. —POPE LEO THE GREAT, Valandų liturgija, II tomasP. 937
This reality should shake the soul from despair. It should raise the chin of the sinner who sees himself as garbage. It should give hope to the one who cannot seem to change himself… bearing the crushing cross of the flesh. For God pats took our flesh, and raised it to the height of Heaven.
So we need not become an angel, nor strive to become a god, as some mistakenly claim. We need to simply become visiškai žmogus. And this—praise Jesus—happens entirely through the gift of God’s grace, given to us in Baptism, and actuated through repentance and trust in His mercy. Through becoming little, not big. Little kaip vaikas.
To become fully human is to live in Christ who is in Heaven… and to invite Christ to live in you, here on earth.
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