CHRIST IS RISEN!

Christ Becomes, in Himself, the Meeting-ground, Both of Life and Death

Beloved ones! You may have to read this awesome passage a few times!

“St. Gregory of Nyssa [+394] discussed Jesus’ soul at death, saying: ‘For when our nature, following its own proper course, had even in Him been advanced to the separation of soul and body, He knitted together again the disunited elements — cementing them - as it were - together with the cement of His divine power, and recombining what had been severed in a union never to be broken. And this is the Resurrection: namely the return, after they had been dissolved, of those elements [i.e., the soul and body], which had before been linked together, into an indissoluble union… For as the principle of death took its rise in one person [Adam] and passed on, in succession, through the whole of mankind, the principle of the resurrection-life, in like manner, extends from one Person to the whole of humanity… This, then, is the mystery of God’s plan, with regard to His death and His resurrection from the dead, namely: instead of preventing the dissolution of His body by death and the necessary results of nature, to bring both back to each other in the Resurrection; so that He might become, in Himself, the meeting-ground both of life and death — having reestablished in Himself that nature which death had divided, and being Himself the original principle of the uniting of those separated portions.’”