Happy New Year
January 1, 2016
A 14th-century illuminated manuscript depicting Mary watching over the circumcision of Jesus.
I WISH you a Happy New Year, dear reader. The Christmas season continues with the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ today. God humbled himself by submitting to this ancient rite of the Israelites, a figure of baptism.
We now learn that He came, not to manifest His power and majesty, but to be made like unto us in all things, as far as it was possible for one who was the Eternal Son of God. We begin to appreciate that He is flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bone.
More reflections on the Circumcision of Christ can be found here and here. May this time of wonder and anticipation strengthen you. We are surrounded by the miracle of God’s love even in this troubled world.
— Comments —
A female reader writes:
The mention of the feast day on your blog is a good opportunity to point out to Protestants who oppose infant baptism (if any of those read your blog) that God ordained circumcision to be eight days after birth. The Protestant, if he was consistent, would call this “unjust,” since the child was unable to choose to believe on his own but instead his parents acted on their faith.
It is ridiculously easy to see how Protestantism led to Liberalism and Modernism, despite that many Protestants claim to oppose the latter.
