The truth is
that only in the mystery
of the incarnate Word
does the mystery of man take on light.
For Adam, the first man,
was a figure of Him Who was to come,
namely Christ the Lord.
Christ, the final Adam,
by the revelation of the mystery of the Father and His love,
fully reveals man to man himself
and makes his supreme calling clear.
It is not surprising, then, that in Him
all the aforementioned truths
find their root and attain their crown.
He Who is "the image of the invisible God" (Col. 1:15),
is Himself the perfect man.
To the sons of Adam
He restores the divine likeness
which had been disfigured from the first sin onward.
Since human nature as He assumed it was not annulled,
by that very fact
it has been raised up
to a divine dignity in our respect too.
For by His incarnation
the Son of God has united Himself
in some fashion
with
every
man.
He worked with human hands,
He thought with a human mind,
acted by human choice and
loved with a human heart.
Born of the Virgin Mary,
He has truly been made one of us,
like us
in all things except sin.
--Gaudium et Spes, par. 22, from the Documents of Vatican II.
(Um, emphasis and crazy poetic form mine.)
Monday, December 20, 2010
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Nicely done. If you teach me scripture like this I think I'll get it. :-)
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