Those words are from an ancient homily and are repeated within the Office of Readings for yesterday and are definitely worth meditating on.
The all powerful God takes human form in the person of Jesus while still remaining complete in His divinity. And that person dies - physically dies - so that God may share in our humanity and in our own suffering. But being God, being the One who created us, who made life, who sustains it, death can have no power over him. This joining of our experience of mortality with God's experience of eternity seals our destiny forever. We cannot be separated from God: we are his people, his children, his eternally beloved.
That the Son of God should voluntarily choose to experience death! That death should be vanquished by His divinity! No wonder Hell trembles with fear. For we only have to choose God and live by that choice and evil can have no power over us. Ever.
Whatever disasters may befall us, whatever nightmares may plague our resting, whatever ills may plague our waking, we will always have God. And what a joy that is!
Christ has died. Christ IS risen. Christ WILL come again!
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The full reading to which I refer is at: http://www.universalis.com/20090411/readings.htm It's the second reading. Read it... it'll stop you in your tracks, and if you're anything like me, it'll bring tears of awe to your eyes as well.
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