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… A Minute Meditation
October 16, 2009
When speaking about God, Christ always made an important distinction: he spoke of “my Father” and “your Father.” For Christ is the second person of the holy Trinity, the Word made flesh. He is the Son of God by nature; we are children of God by adoption. We become partakers of the divine nature by being united to Christ as branches to the vine and we share his divine life by being incorporated into his mystical body. We have access to the Father, therefore, “through Christ our Lord,” that is, as members of Christ’s mystical body. We do not have access to God, as it were, on our own. St. Paul is very clear: “led by the Spirit we cry our 'Abba Father..'" But we should never forget, if God is “Our Father” we must be one in the Lord.