The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-09-10
Sermons on Catholic Worship.

origin of all creation through a hap
hazard coming together of the eternal
matter and eternal force that are in
the world
In zone" Christ.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the
only -begotten Son of God" The word
lone" is used against the HISTORIANS,
who asserted there were two persons
in Christ. Christ" they said, was
only man in whom God dwelt''
Creation marks the beginning of
time. Before it there can be no ages.
1t is said that the Son of God was
"born of the Father before all ages"
because He was born before creation.
He existed God of God, Light of Light,
true God of true God" These words
were used by the council to express
the indivisible unity of the divine ma
ture. He was "consubstantial to the
Father, by whom all things were
made" The word "consubstantiar'
was coined at the Council of Nice to
express unity of essence against the
Arians who denied that the Son was of
the same nature as the Father. HE
was not they said, equal in dignity
or co-eternal with the Father. He was
the Fathers creature made in time"
Second Person of the Trinity
who for us men and for our sal
walton came down from heaven" The
second Person of the Blessed Trinity,
the Son of God, came down from
heaven, assumed human nature, and
ed mankind by His death on the cross.
This is but another way of stating
what st. Paul so nicely expresses in
his epistle to the Philippians: who
being in the form of God = emp
tied himself, taking the form of a serv-
ant, being made in the likeness of
man, and in habit found as man. He
humbled himself, becoming obedient
unto death, even to the death of the
cross" -..e-
Mary, the Mother.
And became incarnate by the Holy
Ghost, of the Virgin Mary" Mary gave
Him the substance of His human ma
ture, and as there is but one person in
Christine person of the Son of Cod
Mary in reality became the Mother of
God, and she became such in miracu-
lous way. For she became a mother
and at the same time remained a vir.
gin, thereby fulfilling the prophecy of
Isaias (VII, 40: Behold virgin
shall conceive and bear son, and his
name shall be called Emmanuel"
And was made man. He not only
assumed the likeness of man, but was
in reality man. st. John the Evan
gelist, having in mind the Arabs of the
desert, expressed this thought in the
opening chapter of his gospel when in
beautiful oriental imagery he writes
1.-The Word was made flesh and pitched
his tent amongst u.s." When the priest
recites these words of the creed, both
priest and people kneel out of respect
to the great mystery of the Incarna.
ton, which united divinity and human
ity in the one divine person of Christ.
Salvation in the Cross.
And was crucified also for us, suf-
lCIcu uuuCI IAdIc, dlu was
buried" His death was through cruci-
fixion on Good Friday under Pontius
PLATE, who became procurator OIL
Judea, A. D. 26. The tree of the cross
was the instrument of our salvation,
as the tree of Eden was the instru-
ment of our fall 1t was fitting that
it should be so-that the race which
was ruined in Eden through the fruit
of the tree should have that ruin re-
paired through the tree. ut is fitting"
as the preface read in the Mass of
Passion-time expresses TIT is fit
ting that Christ should establish the
salvation of mankind in the wood of
the cross, that from whence death
came into the world, thence a new life
might spring, and that he who by a.
tree overcame, by a tree might be
overthrown"