All good things come from love; God used the cross a symbol of His love, to paralyze and defeat all forces of evil. God is love. John 3:16
In the womb of the Virgin Mary, God __ecomes_ human, receiving from her the body that makes possible the __assion_ of God; while on the Cross, through the Jewish flesh given of Mary, the divine Son is truly crucified. In the same way, in the Eucharist, Christians receive the very flesh the Logos received of Mary and united to himself, that __ruly life-giving flesh of God the Word himself._ Only insofar as God receives the passability of human flesh does he become crucifiable and sacramentally givable.
Ecce Homo: On the Divine Unity of Christ
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In the womb of the Virgin Mary, God __ecomes_ human, receiving from her the body that makes possible the __assion_ of God; while on the Cross, through the Jewish flesh given of Mary, the divine Son is truly crucified. In the same way, in the Eucharist, Christians receive the very flesh the Logos received of Mary and united to himself, that __ruly life-giving flesh of God the Word himself._ Only insofar as God receives the passability of human flesh does he become crucifiable and sacramentally givable.
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