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Dear Parish Faithful,
Holy Tuesday Meditation
"In the womb of the Virgin Mother, God "becomes" human, receiving from her the body that makes possible the "passion" of God; while on the Cross, through the Jewish flesh given of Mary, the divine Son is truly crucified. In the same way, in the Eucharist, Christians receive the very flesh the Logos received of Mary and united to himself, that "truly life-giving flesh of God the Word himself." Only insofar as God receives the passibility of human flesh does he become crucifiable and sacramentally givable."
From ECCE HOMO - On the Divine Unity of Christ, by Aaron Riches
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A fine summation of the Gospel revelation that the "Word became flesh." The impassible became passible and suffered "for us and for our salvation." We could not be saved by a man, but only by the One who is Theanthropos - both God and Man. Although expressed in so much of the hymnography that we are now hearing, perhaps a welcome reminder as we continue through Holy Week.
