{"id":35766,"date":"2019-12-31T06:02:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T10:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=35766"},"modified":"2019-12-30T15:07:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T19:07:31","slug":"the-twofold-coming-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2019\/12\/the-twofold-coming-of-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twofold Coming of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Adoration-of-the-Name-of-Jesus-El-Greco-detail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35767 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Adoration-of-the-Name-of-Jesus-El-Greco-detail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a>At this seventh day of Christmas, I am thinking of who it is we preach these days. A piece from Saint Cyril of Jerusalem is helpful to contextualize the question especially we are day before the Octave Day of Christmas: the giving of the Holy Name, the only one that truly saves us. The saint preached:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We do not preach only one coming of Christ, but a second as well, much more glorious than the first. The first coming was marked by patience; the second will bring the crown of a divine kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>In general, whatever relates to our Lord Jesus Christ has two aspects. There is a birth from God before the ages, and a birth from a virgin at the fullness of time. There is a hidden coming, like that of rain on fleece, and coming before all eyes, still in the future.<\/p>\n<p>At the first coming He was wrapped in swaddling clothes in a manger. At His second coming He will be clothed in light as in a garment. In the first coming He endured the cross, despising the shame; in the second coming He will be in glory, escorted by an army of angels.<\/p>\n<p>We look then beyond the first first coming and await the second. At the first coming we said: Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. At the second we shall it again; we shall go out with the angels to meet the Lord and cry out in adoration: Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this seventh day of Christmas, I am thinking of who it is we preach these days. A piece from Saint Cyril of Jerusalem is helpful to contextualize the question especially we are day before the Octave Day of Christmas: the giving of the Holy Name, the only one that truly saves us. The saint &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2019\/12\/the-twofold-coming-of-christ\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Twofold Coming of Christ<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,40],"tags":[1875,32093,32076],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35768,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35766\/revisions\/35768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}