tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4000642393175378494.post5539318194694470629..comments2023-09-15T04:44:05.493-07:00Comments on Crumbs at the Feast: Questions About Gender and SacrificeNeil Ellis Ortshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055904122133673244noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4000642393175378494.post-37521760692329480832014-10-01T12:42:15.912-07:002014-10-01T12:42:15.912-07:00I don't see it as the Father sending his son t...I don't see it as the Father sending his son to die, but, if I may quote the Catechism of the Catholic Church " 609 By embracing in his human heart the Father's love for men, Jesus "loved them to the end", for "greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."425 In suffering and death his humanity became the free and perfect instrument of his divine love which desires the salvation of men.426 Indeed, out of love for his Father and for men, whom the Father wants to save, Jesus freely accepted his Passion and death: "No one takes [my life] from me, but I lay it down of my own accord."427 Hence the sovereign freedom of God's Son as he went out to his death.428 "Brian Sullivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13090250825241093641noreply@blogger.com