Tag: incarnation
God loves me, full stop
Follow my story as I pondered and solved a great and baffling mystery that led to a whole new mystery about God's love, writes Simcha.
Q&A with Fr Flader: Would God have become incarnate if Adam...
Fr Flader answers a question on whether or not God wold have become incarnate if Adam and Eve had not sinned.
Simcha Fisher: The Incarnation of Christ remains as scandalous as ever
When non-Catholics are scandalised by our God, church and sacraments, it’s a sign our faith still has spiritual power, Simcha Fisher writes
Darkness at Christmas
Those who suffer can remember that at Christmas the earthly darknesses yield to the light of Bethlehem
Despite the name of “Christmas”, Christian symbols are...
George Weigel: The earthiness of the Incarnation
Rome. A massive, 16-volume Lives of the Saints, first published between 1872 and 1877, informs me that, here in the Eternal City, the feast of Christmas first became a celebration distinct from the ancient feast of the Epiphany in the mid-fourth century — and that St John Chrysostom, one of the four doctors of the […]
Mark Shea: The fulfilment of Israel’s faith
It is easy to grab the wrong end of the telescope and see Christmas in a way that makes it all seem like something at the beginning of a story that happened long ago, all leading up to us.
Mark Shea: God became flesh – get it?
Previously, we looked first at the fact that the focus of the gospel is on the resurrection of the body, not mere ghostly life after death.
Mark Shea: A mind blowing fact about the incarnation
What does it mean that Jesus is really human?
We Christians believe, of course, that God the Son is the Word made Flesh. That is,...
