Salvation: God with us

This meditation in verse is a play on my Christmas homily. You might recall I proposed that God allows the Jews, as a people, to exist in every generation in order to be a lasting sign to the world of how humanity remains, even after being mingled with Christ’s divinity. The thesis: Salvation is not the eradication of our humanity (ie. the canceling the past), nor is it the artificial domination of the future (ie. technology will remove all suffering). Rather, it is the presence of the One called Emmanuel, “God with us,” Who alone secures redemptive value for everything we experience (past, present, and future) by His death and resurrection. As for the salvation of non-Christians, you may find it helpful to keep this teaching of the Catholic Church close to your heart, namely, “God has bound salvation to the Sacrament of Baptism, but He Himself is not bound by the Sacraments” (CCC, no. 1257).