Nativity of the Lord or Christmas, Vigil (2)
Notes
Transcript
under Christmas tree gift
anything want
physical, spiritual, fictional, whatever
what is it?
yours if TRULY what YOU want.
run downstairs and unwrap it under the tree
yours truly want
not itches, distracting passion
but you truly and objectively
What want under tree?
Danger stuck on a stair by surface desires
where might stop?
Pleasure
self disgust pathetic
most need pain
prefer everything good about it w/o negatives
Power
sword damaclese
prefer good about w/o neg
Health
more just sit in bed all day enjoying health
if clever not hypnotized realize if ANYTHING then purely positive
each step lacks so not good
not totally good
stuck think like kid
happiness eating candy forever
get stuck on stair dream to small and end up with a tummy ache
cold adult logic: ‘IF ANYTHING, lack good?’
no, I want it all
describe
only infinite lacks nothing, only it and none other is Good, only it fully positive
put aside baggage name ‘god’
call whatever
Christians refer ‘God’ is Goodness itself, Truth itself, the infinite
this want clarity mind vs confusion passion stuck
since truly: heart container empty
so why stop stair, b/c stupid?
“resign to hell of infinite dissatisfaction think can’t get infinite” [REWORD]
want perfect Good, but alas we saw it is infinite
how get there finite steps?
add em all up, not infinite
in waking nightmare the stairs descend infinitely into the cursed abyss
few dawn on by experience
moral
intellect
rich
gets worse
as imagine present, under tree so clouded in abyss with ornament
bannend for own good
ate, and sacrificed killed infinite God’s presence in our hearts that were full of bliss
Running on the infinite staircase until you collapse seems sorry fate
a god sized hole in our heart cannot fill
But as God’s minister I promised
but how?
Height of ancient wisdom of the Nations, Socrates, Plato, Seneca, Cicero new through logic saw same
satisfied only by God
only a forlorn hope of reaching it not a solution
As the ancient prophecy states, "Eye has not seen, ear has not heard what God prepared for those who love him”
For man it is impossible (Matt 19)
Thanks be to Christ Jesus for this day
this Christ’s Mass
long prophecies spoken of it
this day of gift giving form on high
when God took our human nature to his infinite self
the infinite ascends the stairs to us sick kids stuck in bed and gives the present
proph
As Isaiah thousands of years ago, the nations will seek out the God of Israel after a miraculous descendant of David arises [2 + 11]
A virgin will give birth to a child, and will be God with us [7]
During the 3rd successive world Empire after Babylonian would the Lord appear to establish his kingdom over on top of that empire, in what we now call the first century would the Messiah come and be cut down, one who appears as a son of man but was God would dawn and even non Hebrews would worship him according to the prophet Daniel
in hopeless darkness did we wander, no way to fulfill the human heart, and to that shadow the prophet Isaiah spoke of our hope long ago before the God man was born:
“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness on them has light shined..for the yoke of his burden... YOU have broken...For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and dominion will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called ‘Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace...from this time forth and for evermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.”
He who made man is made man
the infinite takes up finite
the I AM of AM, Being itself, Truth Itself, Goodness itself became a babe
put in the food trough of animal wrapped up as if in funeral garb, he becomes your food of eternal satisfaction
he became poor to make us who could never reach the infinite wealth infiniteaires
What you Truly want is Infinite goodness
its yours
only the short paper of this passing life veils this present
By todays gift if you want Goodness above all else you have but cling to it until its unwrapped
do we want it? or are we distracted by the stairs and let go of it?
the time for unwrapping is shorter than u think
moral is
want what is right self and all
what right is true
therefore true want
what right is what is good
thus what right, true, good
Notes
me
Incarnation
why
shift upside down to lift up
push down displaces up
exitus redditus
Heavens torn open, sanctuary burst forth into world
hopelessness w/o Jacob’s ladder coming down
He who made man is made man
2 cor 8:9 became poor so we be rich
became our food
gnawed, crushed, ground up
gift/love is give a bit of self
so this ultimate gift
Pitre
First reading and NT (coming together of God and man)
CCC 218-19
one reason was gratuitous love
wrapped in manger (fathers)
wrapped body (tomb wrapped shroud)
placed in, then in death food
in house of bread
CCC became flesh:
457 to reconcile us
458 to [reveal] God’s love
459 to be model holiness
460 to give us divine nature with Him
Anselm
“See Him Who Is, the Infinite, clinging with tiny arms to a mother’s neck.”
“Thou didst deign, O Lord, to be our brother also.”
Benedict XVI
hippolytus of Rome first record of 25th dec in Commentary on Daniel
164 BC Judas celebrated reconscecration in temple (miraculous light in darkness) on that day
Augustine
by woman’s birth of man Jesus, wished to honor New Eve so that cannot put full blame of sin being conceived by woman, who also conceived all righteousness (Sermon 190 +184).
“it was in order, you see, that weakness might become strong, that strength became weak.”
‘make of man made man’
made us one flesh with him/betrotherd
our food in manger (sermon 194)
Bonaventure
the Incarnation is useless for us unless it is revealed (commentary John)
bethlehem and in manger b/c bread
