Friday, 23 December 2011
Christ the embryo recognised
Youth Defence, the upbeat Irish pro-life group, produced this video to help promote the pro-life message for Christmas. In recent years we have come to know more than our forbears about the process of life in the womb; it is right that we apply this to the growth of Jesus Christ from a single-celled embryo.
Remember that after Our Lady conceived Our Lord in her womb, she went with haste to the hill country of Judea to visit St Elizabeth who asked why she should be honoured with a visit from the mother of her Lord. The twenty-four week foetus, St John the Baptist leapt in the womb in recognition of Christ. Both of them recognised their Saviour when he was perhaps a five day old embryo.
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Fr, do you know where I can purchase the editio typica tertiary emendation of the Missal please?
Since it starts with a sperm, depicts a growing embryo, then a baby portraying Our Lord in the manger, some viewers might be theologically confused by this otherwise beautiful vid, thinking that the sperm is how baby Jesus got to the manger. Of course, other babies' conception starts with a sperm.
The other problem, is that the vid depicts in vitro fertilization or they would not have been able to show the fertilized egg from its first beginnings. Who knows what happened to that baby in the images and whether he/she was implanted in his/her mother and able to be born?
Someone pointing out the fact that the spermatazoa in the video is a theological error in this context in 5, 4, 3, 2...
Blessed Christmas to you and your readers, Father!
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Thank you commenters - I should have spotted that theological error in the video. Now someone produce a similar video for next Christmas without the error :-) It's still good to remember that Our Lord was an embryo.
@St John's - for the latin version, best to go to the Vatican bookshop (Libreria Editrice Vaticana) I think that paxbooks still do the distribution for them.
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