Tuesday December 17, 2019
JESUS CHRIST, "SON OF MAN"
Introduction
The liturgical readings of today call our attention to
Christ in his human reality: human like us in everything – except for sin,
clarifies St. Paul – a descendant of sinners, who, as Church Fathers stress,
are even singled out in Matthew’s family tree of Christ. He is a man born of a
woman, a baby in a crib, a child growing up to manhood, a man walking the roads
of Palestine, who could weep and be angry, had friends, had a sense of humor,
and attended marriage feasts. Indeed, he was fully human, God in human form.