Christ’s passion is the great triumph of his incarnation. Dom Columba Marmion writes:
“It is the hour wherein Jesus consummates the sacrifice that is to give infinite glory to His Father, to redeem humanity, and reopen to mankind the fountains of everlasting life.”[1]
The passion is the manifestation of God’s glory and of the glorification of the God-Man himself. It is the single, infinitely pleasing and worthy sacrifice, which offered to God on behalf of a race otherwise unable to do so.
No doubt, the idea that Christ triumphs and is glorified in the humiliations of his passion is a mystery. Let us reverently try to understand it, insofar as we are able.
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Sacrifice and triumph – How does the passion reconcile us to God?
Sacrifice and triumph – How does the passion reconcile us to God?
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