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the flesh.... [we now know this as the DW]. This is His
plan fulfilling his mysteries in us ...and in his whole

Church. 526 only when Christ is born in us will the mystery
of Christ be fulfilled. 533 the hidden life of Jesus allows us
to enter into fellowship with Jesus in the most ordinary
events of life [We could explain using the DW

revelations by saying he did our acts in a Divine Way].

Doing eternal acts copies Jesus’ dynamic role in the Trinity.
Jesus’ love comes from the Father and it returns to the Father

just like our blood circles our body. Note each time it is
refreshed by the lungs. Just like Jesus, as he returns the love
to the Father it grows exponentially and is refreshed by a new

beauty that the Holy Sprit provides- the Holy Spirit is the beauty

of God. We are created to imitate this! Rms 8:19 “For the
creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the
children of God”.

The reading just below from the Divine Office Easter Season
shows Jesus came not just to be an example that we could

copy or he could have just appeared human but Jesus became
fully human to be part of the human condition and story- share

our blood so to speak. Blood takes all the materials of the body
and cleans and renews it by the organs (eg kidney, liver), so

too the life of prayer which is really Jesus praying in us takes all
things we encounter in our fallen human nature and through the

“organs” of the Sacraments (eg. Reconciliation, Eucharist)
purifies it.

Second Reading, Office of Readings, Easter season
From a discourse by Saint Athanasius, bishop. On the
incarnation of the Word

The Word of God, incorporeal, incorruptible and immaterial,
entered our world. Yet it was not as if he had been remote from

it up to that time. For there is no part of the world that was ever

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