Emmanuel, our King and Lawgiver, the Expected of the nations and their Saviour. Come and save us, O Lord our God.
Day: December 23, 2022
On the Beach, With Benedict and Hope
Pope Benedict XVI, in his second encyclical, the 2008 Spe Salvi (Salvific Hope) offers a distinction from the Letter to the Hebrews: We as Christians do not place not our hope on the hyparchonton – all the goods and securities of this life, the bigger barns filled with food – but the hyparxin– the true[…]