Just as someone who goes to meet somebody stands in the road and awaits him until he comes, so he who believes in Christ ought to live in this age as a pilgrim and be situated not at home but in a passageway. For this reason, when the Jews were also about to leave Egypt,Continue reading “Not at home, but in a passageway”
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Bede on Easter and Baptism
We can understand that each of us enacts the mystical celebrations of Easter on the day of our baptism, in that we escape spiritual annihilation through the sign of the precious blood, and pass over from spiritual darkness. Bede the Venerable, De temporum ratione
In spring
In spring all creatures came into being and the first parent was formed from the clay of the earth. In spring Jacob was called from Mesopotamia to his own land. In spring the children of Israel were led out of the land of Egypt, the blood of the lamb turned the destroyer of Egypt away,Continue reading “In spring”
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