We are preparing now to celebrate, in only three weeks time, the lifting up of Christ. On Good Friday we will look at him lifted up on the Cross. Then on Easter Day we will contemplate him lifted up into heaven: risen, ascended...
St. Paul sometimes goes in for passages of baffling obscurity, so that commentators are kept busy for millennia, and still they don’t quite get to the bottom of what he’s talking about! But St. Paul also goes in...