18 December 2024
Homily
In this account from Matthew, which continues the text read yesterday, the title ‘ Son of David ’ is given to both Joseph and Jesus. This underlines the profoundly human nature of God's intervention in history. The Son of God did not become incarnate in the abstract. He became man - a concrete man - born at a particular moment in human history, into a particular people and a particular family. This particular environment shaped him, gave him the categories of thought and language that enabled him to speak to us using a very specific set of images and concepts.