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This gift is so great that I am already saddened by the thought that I shall spoil it. And so I want to give the gift, whole and entire, immediately to you. I want to pronounce his name and place it safely in your hearts before its fullness is dispersed in the effort to express it in words.
The Father! The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! How I long to cry aloud purely and lovingly this name from which “every family in heaven and on earth takes its name” (Ephesians 3:14-15).
A Cold Redemption? St. Paul once wrote: “God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). And again, God “did not withhold his own Son but gave him up for all of us” (8:32). This is a surprising statement. The fact that Jesus died on the cross is not, to the human mind, a sign of the Father’s love. Instead, it is seen as a sign of his cruelty—or at least of his rigid justice. It seems as if knowledge of the Father, even for believers, is blocked by a host of human prejudices.
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