Father Lazarus
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Or a true believer has the Holy Spirit inside of them.
How?
How is God inside of me?
If you cut me open, you're not going to see him.
This is a mystery.
Or that we two or three are gathered in my name.
He's there with us.
So we consider the Eucharist truly one of those mysteries that we can't explain, but truly becomes his body and blood, and it's necessary for our salvation.
Does it surprise us that our Lord will humble us to this point?
It doesn't surprise me.
The one who would leave being worshipped by the angels, to come confine himself to the womb of the Virgin, to be a little child born in the worst of circumstances, the worst circumstances ever in history,
And then for him to flee to another country because his life is sought after, wanted to be destroyed by Herod, to be raised for the first few years of his life in a foreign country in Egypt, to come back, live a very poor life, every day to hear nails, hammer, wood, nails, hammer, wood, reminding him of what's going to be before him because his earthly father was a carpenter, right?
I'm sure there would be times he would be crying and his mother didn't know why.
He knew what was ahead of him, right?
Does it really shock us that this one who would do all this and suffer and die in the worst, most excruciating way, literally the word crucifixion, the word excruciating comes from the word crucifixion.
Literally.
to be stripped naked, to be spat upon, the one who was whipped, the one who would be nailed, the one who would be thorns.
Does it, that he would humble himself that much?
Of course he would humble himself to be some crumbs.
Crumbs, God became crumbs.