Sunday, July 22, 2012

Quote: Jacques Leclercq on the Humanity and Humility of Christ

"Come to bring men salvation, he subjects himself to the laws of nature: he preaches, and his voice travels as far as the human voice; he knows all nature's secrets, he would have been able to pre-empt the discoveries of this age of ours carrying man's voice through space, and he did not want to; the men of his day did not speak to each other across continents, and he did not want his voice to travel further than the voice of others. .... 

          He speaks in the language of his time, he expresses himself according to the customs of his country; his manner reflects the manner of thinking an of feeling of his country and his time. ...There are miracles, yes, ...The miracles are the manifestation of his transcendence, and in the ordinary course of his life, they do not stop him from accepting the human order and submitting all he does to it." Quoted in  Why the Church,  Luigi Giussani, p.146

    

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