Today is the 2nd Sunday of Lent.
As usual we hear about a rather new Roman Station for today, 8th century, which is Santa Maria in Domnica. Cool fountain. Cool square-haloed Pope.
Today we hear from an Angelus of Benedict XVI.
Jesus’ struggle with the tempter preludes the great final duel of the passion, while the light of his transfigured body anticipates the glory of the resurrection. On the one hand, we see Jesus, fully man, sharing with us even temptation; on the other, we contemplate him as the Son of God who divinizes our humanity. Thus, we could say that these two Sundays serve as pillars on which to build the entire structure of Lent until Easter and, indeed, the entire structure of Christian life, which consists essentially in paschal dynamism: from death to life.
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Do I recognize Anonymous 4? Love the square halo reference. The “lofty space” and connection to prayer is wonderful. Thanks again. And, for the first time, the idea of the “scandal of the Cross” hit me as applicable to each one of us. Is not our Holy Father worn down by the scandal of the Cross, and every time we are misunderstood or criticized or contradicted because people do not love or do not understand Christ in us, just as we do not understand Christ in them, are these things not all part of the “scandal of the Cross”?
Thank you for these pod casts, Fr. Z.
Thank you for these teachings, Fr. Z. Thanks also for all the reporting on our Holy Father, Pope Benedict. I would be much the poorer Catholic were it not for your work here. May God bless you and you have my support in prayer. [Thanks! And VOTE!]
In Early Christian art the square halo was used only for people living when the art was made. So the pope with a square halo was still living, not a saint…yet.