Day 258: The Kingdom Is Here (2022)
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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The Kingship of Jesus
Gold is symbolic in that sense of gold for the kingship of Jesus. Frankincense, for the fact that he will actually be the sacrifice and mer, mer was what you would use to anoint the dead bodies of a human being. And so even at the moment of his birth, Jesus is recognized on these three levels. One is as king, another is as priest or sacrifice. And the third is, as Archbishop Fulton Sheen once said, the only baby who was born to die.
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