Wednesday,
1/16/13
The
Feast of the Epiphany is ten days behind us, but its message is still strong
with the Church. Yes, God has deemed to come to us in human form. What a
wonderful thing!
Four
days ago, at the feast of the Baptism of Jesus we were marveling at that voice
from heaven saying, “This is my beloved Son.” Four days from now, at the
marriage at Cana, that Son will reveal his glory by the creative act of
changing water into wine.
Today’s
reading from the Letter to the Hebrews gives us two of God’s reasons for
sending us the Son in human form.
First,
the Son had to take on human form so that he could be one of us, acting as a
representative of humanity: “He had to become like his brothers and sisters”
that he might be our high priest.
Secondly,
he had to be “tested through what he suffered” because it was only by his
experiencing the range of human suffering that he could be truly sympathetic
with us.
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