Categories: hymns
Date: 09 December 2004 11:48:06
| O Rex Gentium, et desideratus earum, lapisque angularis, qui facis utraque unum: veni, et salva hominem, quem de limo formasti. | O King of the Nations, and the one they desired, keystone, who makes both peoples one, come and save mankind, whom you shaped from the mud. |
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.Christ has broken down the barriers: there is no division between the peoples of the world. There is no valuing of people based on their ethnicity, gender or social status. All people are equal in dignity. We are 'all one in Christ Jesus'.
Galatians 3:27-38
The differences between us still exist, for while we are one we each remain infinitely unique, but there is no advantage before God in these things. I find it a blessing indeed to meditate on the fact that I, insignificant as I am in the small suburb of Bossley Park in the city of Fairfield, in the city of Sydney, in a little bit of land just off the east coast of Australia, am valued by God and am 'one in Christ Jesus' with the saints who have gone before me, the saints who are living now, and the saints who are to come.
Each meditation of the Advent O Antiphons is helping me to see the sheer wonder and magnitude of all Christ has accomplished for us: the Wisdom, guiding us; our Redemption; the rescue of us from the shadows of Sheol; and today, the glory and great blessing of Christ making us one. May we continually remember Christ, the chief cornerstone (Ephesians 2:20), the foundation of our faith. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ!
Amen: come, Lord Jesus!