In the face of monumental devastation and suffering, God speaks a word, and the word becomes flesh.
In the face of monumental devastation and suffering, God speaks a word, and the word becomes flesh.
Making the Church in the incarnate body of Christ is costly for God, and both challenging and salvific for us.
God invites us to be immersed in another possible reality, to look at the world with the dark and contrary light that comes from the cross of Jesus.
We worship our God with words and images from the imagination of human beings, believing that God can take even what we say and do speak to us in a voice nor our own and images not our own.
Each human being is an icon of Christ and so the respect and care with which we deal with others is an expression of our devotion to Christ.
Icons, as representations of the incarnation rather than images of God, can serve to open us to God rather than becoming alternatives to God.
Embodied in all creation, God labours to bring to birth a new creation and the children of God.
Flesh and matter are means of communion with God, but to set the mind on them for their own sakes denudes them of value and us of dignity.
The Word has become flesh to redeem us. Now our redeemed response must become flesh.
Our bodies are integral to who we are and are destined for resurrection and glorification, but the fracturing of the integrity of creation affects us too in ways that mean we often find our bodies at war with our spirits. The pathway to sanctification involves a reintegration of body and spirit, and sometimes that means denial and disciplining of physical desires.
Christ is the image of God and our goal is that all grow to maturity in the image of Christ.
Jesus helps us to identify the oppressed and brokenhearted and to see how we can become agents of renewal and restoration.