Today's antiphon calls Jesus the "legifer," the law-bearer.While Moses climbed Sinai to receive the law, Jesus came to us, bearing the law in himself. He took on human flesh with its many limitations to teach us this truth: his law is love.
From Adam's time onward, every human baby was conceived beneath the shadow of original sin. (The Blessed Mother was freed from its stain at her conception, but even she required a redeemer.) The Lord pierced that shadow with his own light. He needed no redeemer; he is redemption enfleshed and his law is righteousness.
He came to bring the heavenly food that still sustains us; he came in the innocence that would take on sin. His law is written plainly on pierced hands: his law is grace. Glory to him.
the long-awaited of the nations and their Savior,
come to save us, Lord our God.
Dear Jamie -- I am finally back online after our move and Christmas, and I thank you SO MUCH for these meditations, which I read after-the-fact. They moved me to tears, and brought me a sense of having been given back the pre-Christmas preparation of the heart for which I had neither time or physical energy on the appropriate days. A reminder that God is outside time!
Posted by: Salome Ellen | December 29, 2009 at 03:32 PM