Wednesday after Laetare + 1 Peter 4:1-19
In the Name of the Father and of the Son + and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. “ Christ suffered for us in the flesh. ” This is mystery of the gospel. What’s so mysterious about it is that Christ consists of two natures, a human nature and a divine nature. It’s impossible for divinity to suffer. Suffering is the antithesis of divinity. So God the Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity, condescends and assumes human flesh. He doesn’t possess a man that already existed. Nor did He come only in the appearance of flesh, like a hologram man. He assumes human nature so that He might suffer and die. This means that we can call Christ’s suffering God’s suffering. Christ’s blood is God’s blood. Christ’s death is God’s death. All these happened according to the human nature in Christ, but that humanity is inseparably united to the divine nature. That’s what makes this suffering and death so mysterious. On Sunday we enter into Passiontide, the final two weeks of Lent and those final two weeks ...