The Spirit Of The Liturgy Question

[tinytherese]

I'm reading the former pope's book, The Spirit of the Liturgy and there's a passage I don't understand.

Chapter 3 From Old Testament to New, p. 47

"The idea of the sacrifice of the Logos becomes a full reality on in the Logos incarnatus, the Word who is made flesh and draws 'all flesh' into the glorification of God. When that happens, the Logos is more than just the 'Meaning' behind and above things. Now he himself has entered into flesh, has become bodily. He takes up into himself our sufferings and hopes, all the yearning of creation, and bears it to God. The two themes that throughout the Old Testament keep running toward one another, now really converge. The Word is no longer just the representation of something else, of what is bodily. In Jesus' self surrender on the Cross, the Word is united with the entire reality of human life and suffering. There is no longer a replacement cult. Now the vicarious sacrifice of Jesus takes us up and leads us into that likeness with God, that transformation into love, which is the only true adoration."

[PadrePioOfPietrelcino]

Logos = word, incranatus =  flesh

 

We know that the Word and the word made flesh is Jesus. Try rereading it with substituting those words instead, if that's not the part confusing you can you be more specific?

[tinytherese]

Thank you. That cleared it up for me.