Let the Word of the Lord Come to Us
We know that the
coming of the Lord is threefold: the third coming is between the other two and
it is not visible in the way they are. At his first coming the Lord was seen on
earth and lived among men, who saw him and hated him. At his last coming All
flesh shall see the salvation of our God, and They shall look on him whom they have
pierced. In the middle,
the hidden coming, only the chosen see him, and they see him within themselves;
and so their souls are saved. The first coming was in flesh and weakness, the
middle coming is in spirit and power, and the final coming will be in glory and
majesty.
This middle coming is
like a road that leads from the first coming to the last. At the first, Christ
was our redemption; at the last, he will become manifest as our life; but in
this middle way he is our rest and our consolation.
If you keep God’s
word like this, there is no doubt that it will keep you, for the Son will come
to you with the Father: the great Prophet will come, who will renew Jerusalem,
and he is the one who makes all things new. For this is what this coming will
do: just as we have been shaped in the earthly image, so will we be shaped
in the heavenly image. Just
as the old Adam was poured into the whole man and took possession of him, so in
turn will our whole humanity be taken over by Christ, who created all things,
has redeemed all things, and will glorify all things.
Source: The Liturgy of the Hours – Office of
Readings
From a sermon by St Bernard
Image taken from Wikimedia Commons
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