#the incarnation

[forthesakeofthespirit]

I go crazy for the Incarnation.

can you imagine seeing Jesus smile? can you imagine the puff of air that would escape His nose when someone said something a little bit funny?? can you imagine watching Him tie His sandals??? Him brushing your shoulder by accident as you walk by???? falling to your knees cause you just touched God????? Him crouching down to face you and giving you the most loving look you've ever seen in your life?????? the way His voice would have sounded calling you by name???????! hearing God use His vocal cords and the air from His lungs and knowledge of the language He learned growing up to produce a sentence calling you by name?????!?!??!?!

His clothes feel just like anyone else's as they're made wet and cold with tears. He smells of skin and body odour and dust. His arms have hair. He's warm. you feel the calluses on His hands as they rub your back. your hands slowing come up and place themselves on His spine-

God has bones..

[christ-redeemer]

Third Week of Advent

"Catholicism is a matter of the body and the senses as much as it is a matter of the mind and the soul, precisely because the Word became flesh."

- Bishop Barron, The Word Became Flesh: Reflections for Advent and Christmas

[many-sparrows]

Hail, the heaven-born Prince of Peace! Hail, the Sun of Justice! Let us join the angels in singing "Peace on Earth, and Mercy Mild!"

[judahmaccabees]

"They're trying to start a fire out there and they don't know what the heck they're doing." - Mother Mary, on the subject of Earth

"fine, but it's the last time, I've had enough of this nonsense." - Jesus

Mary shuts the window.

[lightthewaybackhome]

The Birth of Christ is the eucatastrophe of Man's history. The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation. This story begins and ends in joy.

- On Fairy-Stories by J.R.R. Tolkien

Merry, merry Christmas!!!

[apilgrimsprogress]

how special must humans be that the architect of the universe walked among us out of love for us?

[icannotbejondenden47]

The Incarnation: Why Did God Become Man?

When you set out to know someone, you usually want to know where they came from and what they are like. Such information is far from trivial

When you set out to know someone, you usually want to know where they came from and what they are like. Such information is far from trivial. Instead, it becomes the blood that pulses through the heart of the relationship. When we ask the typical “getting to know you” questions about Christ, we find the answers are given in the doctrine of the incarnation (a word that simply means “in flesh”). Incarnation describes what happened when the second person of the Trinity left the bliss of heaven for some thirty-three years to enter, as one of us, the mess of the human condition.