Our Lord and Brother!

Our God and Brother

What follows is a short excerpt from today's Office of Readings:

Let us understand, then, how a Christian must follow Christ even [if] he does not shed his blood for Him, and his faith is not called upon to undergo the great test of the martyr's sufferings.  The apostle Paul says of Christ our Lord: Though he was in the form of God he did not consider equality with God a prize to be clung to. How unrivaled his majesty! But he emptied himself, taking on the form of a slave, made in the likeness of men, and presenting himself in human form.  How deep his humility!

-St. Augustine, bishop

My brothers, how can we possibly fail to love with all the heart so majestic a King and so humble a Brother!

Praised be Jesus Christ, now and forever!