Anything Is Possible with God

Last updated on: January 5, 2013 at 11:50 am by Kathryn Jean Lopez

Anything Is Possible with God 2013-01-05T11:50:28-05:00 Kathryn Jean Lopez

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It’s the message of Christmas and Easter, isn’t it? This comes from Saint Augustine via the Liturgy of the Hours today and drives that point home with some appropriate zeal:

Beloved, our Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal creator of all things, today became our Savior by being born of a mother. Of his own will he was born for us today, in time, so that he could lead us to his Father’s eternity. God became man so that man might become God. The Lord of the angels became man today so that man could eat the bread of angels.

Today, the prophecy is fulfilled that said: Pour down, heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just one: let the earth be opened and bring forth a savior. The Lord who had created all things is himself now created, so that he who was lost would be found. Thus man, in the words of the psalmist confesses: Before I was humbled, I sinned. Man sinned and became guilty; God is born a man to free man from his guild. Man fell, but God descended; man fell miserably, but God descended mercifully; man fell through pride, God descended with his grace.

My brethren, what miracles! What prodigies! The laws of nature are changed in the case of man. God is born. A virgin becomes pregnant with man. The Word of God marries the woman who knows no man. She is now at the same time both mother and virgin. She becomes a mother, yet she remains a virgin. The virgin bears a son, yet she does not know man; she remains untouched, yet she is not barren. He alone was born without sin for she bore him without the embrace of a man, not by the concupiscence of the flesh but by the obedience of the mind.

And a prayer:

RESPONSORY

1 John 4:14; 1:9

We have seen with our own eyes and we bear witness:
– the Father sent his own Son to be the Savior of the world.

He has come to take away the burden of our sins
and to cleanse us of every stain of evil.
– The Father sent his own Son to be the Savior of the world..

Makes you want to follow a woman in her free yes?

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