Messiah’s Humanity: Foundation of Salvation and Eternal Life
We explore how Messiah's full humanity, descendant of David, is not a theological debate but a scriptural certainty, crucial for promise, covenant, and redemption, unlike today's doctrine. #Messiah #HumanityOfChrist #Salvation #EternalLife #DavidicDescent #ScripturalTruth #Redemption #Covenant #GospelTruth #BiblicalProphecy from Christic Academy
Messiah’s Humanity: Foundation of Salvation and Eternal Life
We explore how Messiah's full humanity, descendant of David, is not a theological debate but a scriptural certainty, crucial for promise, covenant, and redemption, unlike today's doctrine. #Messiah #HumanityOfChrist #Salvation #EternalLife #DavidicDescent #ScripturalTruth #Redemption #Covenant #GospelTruth #BiblicalProphecy from Christic Academy
Thus your Reverence and lordship [García de Toledo, O.P.] should desire no other path even if you are at the summit of contemplation; on this road you walk safely. This Lord of ours is the one through whom all blessings come to us. He will teach us these things. In beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
What more do we desire than to have such a good friend at our side, who will not abandon us in our labors and tribulations, as friends in the world do? Blessed are they who truly love Him and always keep Him at their side!
Let us consider the glorious St. Paul: it doesn’t seem that any other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, as coming from one who kept the Lord close to his heart. Once I had come to understand this truth, I carefully considered the lives of some of the saints, the great contemplatives, and found that they hadn’t taken any other path: St. Francis demonstrates this through the stigmata; St. Anthony of Padua, with the Infant; St. Bernard found his delight in the humanity; St. Catherine of Siena—and many others about whom your Reverence knows more than I.
Saint Teresa of Avila
The Book of Her Life, chap. 22, no. 7
Note: Translator and editor Father Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D. notes that Father García de Toledo, O.P. was a nephew of the Count of Oropesa and a typical aristocrat in soul and blood. He went to America with the viceroy of Mexico and made his profession as a Dominican there in 1535. Returning to Spain, he became subprior in 1555 at Santo Tomás, the Dominican house in Avila, and served as one of Teresa’s trusted confessors. Suddenly and unexpectedly, he entered the pages of Teresa’s Book of Her Life when she met him in a church in Toledo in 1562. To him we owe the expanded version of her Life, with its extra little treatise on prayer (chs. 11–22) and its final chapters on the foundation of St. Joseph’s (chs. 32–40). Once Teresa received a message from God for him. The message was brief but all from God. And Teresa said, “he began to weep, for it penetrated to the depths of his being. And he is a tough man who could rule the world.”
Teresa of Avila, St. 1985, The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, translated from the Spanish by Kavanaugh, K; Rodriguez, O, ICS Publications, Washington DC.
Featured image: This oil on canvas painting by Peter Paul Rubens executed between 1612 and 1614 shows a vision described by St. Teresa of Avila in her autobiography, chapter 38. On the eve of Pentecost 1569, the Holy Spirit appeared to her in the form of a brilliant dove with wings like mother-of-pearl. Teresa, wearing the habit of the Carmelite order, kneels with her hands held out in ecstasy, transfixed by the dove. Image credit: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (Public domain)
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