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clothe himself with our debt to death
Christ is the one and only Way that will bring us to God. He comes from God; he came down that we may go back up with him and by him. He becomes one of us in his human nature and did not hesitate to clothe himself with our debt to death and all its consequences, to put on the skin garment of our lowly human condition.
Therefore we have to study carefully the incidents of his earlthy life because the stages he passed through on his earthly journey are the pattern of our ascent to God:
His bodily growth is the exemplar of our spiritual progress to such an extent that what we read of his development is experienced, step by step, spiritually, by those who go steadily forward. (St. Aelred)
The Monastic Theology of Aelred of Rievaulx
Amedee Hallier, OCSO
Amedee Hallier, OCSO
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Priest’s legacy of tolerance is all-embracing
The Buffalo News: Donn Esmonde
They put Father Bill in the ground Wednesday. It was cold January earth. But I would like to think — no, I know — that easing his way down was the warmth and the gratitude of the countless “invisible” people to whom he opened the church doors. Many were God-loving Catholics who were not sure that God loved them back. Father Bill, by word and deed, let them know that He did.
Prostitutes, the homeless, the poor, immigrants, homosexuals — Monsignor William Schwinger welcomed all of them to St. Louis Church. From 1979 to 1995, he presided over a mixed flock on the edge of Allentown.
It was, especially, not an easy time to be homosexual. The epidemic of AIDS cut down friends and lovers, even as society’s cold eye prompted many gays to live a closeted lie. No matter. Everyone was wrapped in his spiritual embrace...
more:
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/columns/donn-esmonde/article714554.ece
16 January 2012
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