CQOD: 05/01/06 -- St. Athanasius: God's solution

Christian Quotation of the Day

May 1, 2006

Feast of Philip & James, Apostles

Meditation:
    Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
    -- Romans 1:22-23 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    What was God to do in the face of the dehumanizing of mankind—this universal hiding of the knowledge of Himself? So burdened were men with their wickedness that they seemed rather to be brute beasts than reasonable men, reflecting the very likeness of the Word. What, then, was God to do? What else could He possibly do, being God, but renew His Image in mankind, so that through it men might once more come to know Him? And how could this be done save by the coming of the very Image Himself, our Savior Jesus Christ?... Men had turned from the contemplation of God above, and were looking for Him in two opposite directions, down among created things, and things of sense. The Savior of us all, the Word of God, in His great love took to Himself a body and moved as Man among men, meeting their senses, so to speak, half-way. He became Himself an object for the senses, so that those who were seeking God in sensible things might apprehend the Father through the works which He, the Word of God, did in the body. [Continued tomorrow]
    ... St. Athanasius (293?-373), The Incarnation of the Word of God

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, our people have abandoned You for gods of our own making.

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