Shane Williamson’s Reviews > Fire of Mercy, Heart of the Word: Meditations on the Gospel According to Saint Matthew, Vol. 1 > Status Update

Have we sufficiently reflected on the fact that, after the Incarnation, the Father and the Spirit relate to the Son in a new way; that is, no longer to the Word as divine only, but also and necessarily to the Word as incarnate Man? It seems that God's freely chosen dependency on the mediation of humans derives from the unfathomable design that his Son should become incarnate. (89)

After all the human comedy has been played out on earth, there will abide only God, the wise, and the stars. (75)

The Child, while present only in Bethlehem by his poverty and weakness, is already present in the pattern of the constellations by his splendor and his glory. What a petty monarch of a land subject to the Romans refuses to see, the eternal language of the heavens proclaims. (75)

In Christ, the distance between the prophet [lit. "to speak ahead of/before"] and the Lord disappears, because he who has come is Emmanuel, "God with-us". (71)

God, like a good physician, comes when he is most needed: somehow, to be fully rejuvenated, the world first had to grow old utterly and come to the limit of its own foolish hopes. Christ is sent by the Father into the world "to liberate the human race from its state of decrepitude." (60)