“Emmanuel (God-with-us), to whom we pleadingly sing “O come, O come,” is the human enfleshment of the one same divine presence that has been from the beginning but to which humans have a habit of becoming blind.

Christ makes God present in the historical, in the commonplace, not by re-infusing the ordinary and the earthly with the divine presence as if there were a leak somewhere in the universe through which it all seeped out, but rather by reawakening us to the original, ever-present, and eternal divinity contained and concealed within all creation, and yes, within each and all of us.

The annunciation of the season is that it is the glory-of-God-given and the solidarity of God present that is the one enduring truth despite any sign to the contrary.”

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