Reality is reliable. We can depend on the reality of his love for us. His love for us is the rock on which the wise build their lives. Whom shall we fear? Of whom shall we be afraid? Will our almighty lover ever let us down? Will he ever disappoint?
To neutralize the the serpent’s anti-God propaganda, Jesus commandeered a cross - the instrument of our woe - and repurposed it to offer us a contradiction.
Armageddon is here and now. We are not fighting for something in the hereafter. The battle is now. Now is the time to join Jesus in the scrum at the line of scrimmage in the Valley of Tears facing off against Evil toe to toe, cheek to jowl. Christianity is not a sport for spectators. Christians partake in the fray.
The Magi saw the potential in the feeble human baby born in the manger. His potential was realized on the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection where he participated in the first lopsided transaction under the new Paradigm. The signal of the new paradigm repeats itself whenever a Mass takes place. It echoes from then and there, across space and time, to us here and now. The vehicle that carries the echo is the Mass.
