Jesus rises from the dead, trampling down death by death, and yet, in all that trampling, he still bears the marks of his own being trampled-down. The risen Christ is a wounded Christ. If Christ is the Image of the Invisible God, and if seeing Jesus means seeing the Father (Jn. 14:9), we must bear it being asked, “what does it mean that the hands of the Hand of God have holes in them?” We hail Christ as the “Wounded Healer” mustn’t we pause to wonder more simply “what is a wound?” …
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Lights and voices.
That is what we bring to Candlemas: lights and voices. We offer to God the sound of our human voices which is the true and laudable sacrificial act of giving God ourselves in a very real sense —an act to which all of the bloody sacrifices of the Tabernacle pointed. The human body is, as Peter Leithart and Jim Jordan have argued, the original instrument.
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