“Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.” GodJesusChristChristianityGraceJesus ChristCatholicismMaryIncarnationVirgin MaryBlessed Virgin MaryGod The FatherEternal Child Book:Unless You Become Like This Child Source: Unless You Become Like This Child
“Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place.” GodJesusChristChristianityJesus ChristCatholicismMaryIncarnationVirgin MarySon Of GodBlessed Virgin MaryMost High Book:Unless You Become Like This Child Source: Unless You Become Like This Child
“It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.” SufferingJesusChristChristianityJesus ChristTheologyRedemptionCatholicismCrucifixionCrossThe Cross Book:Unless You Become Like This Child Source: Unless You Become Like This Child
“Nevertheless, in a passage that is very often commented upon because it summarizes the entire salvific economy of faith, the Apostle calls Christ the 'pioneer and perfecter of our faith' (Heb. 12:2), because he has to accomplish the same act as the Christian, only in the opposite direction, as it were. Whereas by venturing to let go of everything the Christian takes a stand beyond finitude and comes into the limitlessness of God, Christ, in order to make this act possible and to be its source, has dared to emerge from the infinitude of the 'form of God' and 'did not think equality with God a thing to be grasped,' has dared to set out into the limitation and emptiness of time. This involved a transcendence and a boundary crossing no less fundamental than that of the Christian, and Christ undertook it so as to entrust himself henceforth within time, with no guarantee or mitigation from eternity, to the Father's will, which is always given to him in the present moment.” GodJesusChristianityThe Incarnation Book:The Christian and Anxiety Source: The Christian and Anxiety