Oblate Program at Belmont Abbey, NC

God Bowed His Heavens and Came Down

madonna-child_web“Created as we were to the image and the likeness of the Creator, we fell through our sin from God into ourselves, and fell from ourselves beneath ourselves into such an abyss of unlikeness that no hope was left. But there came the Son of God, eternal Wisdom; he bowed his heavens and came down. He made of himself a being who should be among us and like us, so that we might grasp him; and he made us to be like himself, so that we might be exalted by him.”

William of St. Thierry
Exposition on the Song of Songs 83

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