We read in Psalm 8, “What is man that you should care for him?” Made little lower than the angels, the human person is a composite being made of both body and soul. This soul is the form or the organizing principle of the body. It is from this immaterial soul, with its attendant powers of intellect and will, that every man and woman most fully expresses the image of God within them.
This section of the blog is dedicated to anthropology, human nature, and metaphysics (how we understand being itself as human persons).
Consummatum est. It is finished. Jesus, our King born to die, now finishes his course. Completing His sacrifice in adoration of the Father’s will, His high priestly act, we receive of his fullness, grace upon grace, the cause of our salvation and all grace. Let us...
During Advent and Christmastide, which continues until the Baptism of the Lord, the Liturgy of the Church is rich with some of the most powerful readings of the year regarding the Incarnation, the plan of God to save man. For example, Pope St. Leo the Great writes a...
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.”[i] “For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on...
The King's Son given to redeem a slave.1 Consideration of the human person may rightly (and surprisingly!) begin with God. Man is a created being, endowed with a spiritual soul. From philosophy we know that the soul is the “form” of the body, but what does this...