Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Why People Fear the The Incarnation

[The human being, in all ages of history,] resists the consequence of the mystery made flesh, for if this Event is true, the all aspects of life, including the sensible and the social, must revolve around it. And it is precisely man’s perception of being undermined, no longer being the measure of his own self, that places him in the position of refusal.— Monsignor Luigi Giussani (via Magnificat Magazine)

This is was posted by The Anchoress that expands on this greatly at The Incarnation: Not for wimps

I think this is a great insight and indeed even the devout Christian is prone to the above

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