01/30/2012
"I’ve often thought of that time … that time when Ali Fayattia and his men left. Once they were gone, all we had left to do was to live. And the first thing we did was … two hours later … we celebrated the Christmas Vigil and Mass. It’s what we had to do. It’s what we did.
And we sang the Mass. We welcomed that child who was born for us … absolutely helpless and … and already so threatened.
Afterwards, we found salvation in undertaking our daily tasks. The kitchen, the garden, the prayers, the bells. Day after day. We had to resist the violence. And day after day, I think each of us discovered that to which Jesus Christ beckons us.
It’s to be born. Our identities as men go from one birth to another. And from birth to birth, we’ll each end up bringing to the world the child of God that we are. The Incarnation, for us, is to allow … to allow the filial reality of Jesus to embody itself in our humanity.
The mystery of the Incarnation remains what we are going to live. In this way, what we’ve already lived here takes root … as well as what we’re going to live in the future." - Of Gods and Men
