The Word was made flesh; come let us worship Him!
While the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes marks CAPPA’s launch as an organization, the Annunciation marks the anniversary of the CAPPA rosary. Jenn and I are looking forward to praying and chatting with our members as CAPPA has been doing for a year now!
The solemnity, like the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, is one of importance to Catholic health care. While the solemnity is focused on the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Angel Gabriel – for on her fiat did the salvation of the world turn, undoing what Eve had done when handing the apple to Adam – it is also the moment of the Incarnation. The Father sends the Son who willingly takes a human body, soul, and nature to unite it with His divinity. One person, two inseparable natures is a truth the Church defined at the Council of Chalcedon in 451 A.D. and continues to teach and defend to this day. Through His humanity, Jesus died to free us from our sins so that we, too, can become divine in Him.
At the end of His earthly life, Jesus ascends back to the Father with his humanity, taking it up into the Most Holy Trinity. Every person is created with a rational soul and is destined for eternal live with God. This is promised to all who choose and strive to live in conformity to all that Jesus Christ taught, particularly in the Beatitudes.
In our post-Christian world, how can we be a witness to this undeniable truth? The Christian view of human dignity, and a society built on a common good that brings about human flourishing – while their origins are from Christ, their precepts can be understood, embraced, and lived by all people of good will. Health care is frequently the target of assaults on human dignity. CAPPA in one of many organizations striving to spread the gospel of Human Dignity. That is why we pray.
Join Jenn and I tonight for our one-year CAPPA Rosary anniversary, 7:30 pm ET. We hope to see you there!
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