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“He took our humanity, just as it is, with all its wretchedness and ugliness, and gave it back to us just as His humanity is, transfigured by the beauty of His living, filled full of His joy.”
Christ entered the world, not to obliterate suffering or to remove sadness, but to infuse everything, all our joys and all our woes, with love, His love, with Himself who is Love. He is not interested in our false heroics or our rosy images—no! He wants the world as it really is to accept what it is so that it can be transformed from its very core.
In this book, Caryll Houselander meditates on the profound effects of the resurrection, inviting us to enter deeper into the mystery that God has taken on human nature—that we share our nature with God!—and that He has done so that we might enter more deeply into union with Him. But not only does He wish to enter into union with each of us individually, He wants also to use us as vessels, participating in His risen life, to unite all men together with Him.
‘Houselander has a unique way with words and a rare gift for treating the spiritual life.’—Fr Sean Davidson
