Henri Boulad: I am His Child

The Jesuit scholar Fr. Henri Boulad gave a homily on Jesus' Baptism and connected it to the Magi who came from the East to worship him. The homily can be found here in French. In those days, the astrologers believed in the power of stars - When they found a star leading them to the manger in Bethlehem, they followed it and worshiped the infant just born in the manger. The Baptism of Jesus' showed the Holy Spirit descend upon Jesus and a voice (of the Father) from Heaven said "This is my son in whom I am pleased". "I am His child too" proclaimed Boulad; for there is nothing that can separate us from Him or rather as found in St. Paul's "Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love?" (Romans 8: 35).
It was the beginning of the public ministry of Jesus Christ that caused a revolution as Christ not only said "Love your enemies", but also went all the way to the Golgotha, and in spite of Satanic temptations, He trusted in the full love of His Father that raised Him from the dead . Christ's Resurrection is not only the hope that Christians have after they depart from this life, but the proof that He is God who ascended to heaven by His power of love.
The greatest theologian in the 20th century according to Fergus Kerr (a British highly-regarded theologian), Hans Urs von Balthasar, the man whom Fr. Boulad talked about earlier, is another priest that was made a cardinal by Saint John Paul II  but did not live to receive the "red hat." Han Urs von Balthasar wrote 15 large volumes: The Glory of the Lord (7); Theo-Drama (5); Theo-logic (3)  inspired by the mystic Adrienne von Speyer. His most eloquent work is undoubtedly "On a Friday afternoon" in which he gazes on Christ's redemption of mankind and hopes in the mercy of Him who is love eternal that He may save all creation in the Last Judgment - It is a hope, nevertheless and not Origen's theory of universalism although the great Alexandrian Origen of the 3rd century AD has been rehabilitated by yet another great Jesuit and cardinal Henri de Lubac...
Trust in God as Henri Boulad follows St. Paul in his trust in Christ - Nothing else matters!