THE LOVE STORY OF GOD AND MAN:

…One way of looking at the Old Testament is as a simple story: God makes man (Genesis 1-2), God loses man (Genesis 3), God tries to woo man back (Genesis 4-Malachi 3).

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and:

…The first human words quoted in Genesis are of a man’s delight at his wife. The last human words quoted in Revelation are of a woman’s delight at her husband. Christ’s marriage with the Church restores the unity intended from the beginning.

Mankind’s first liturgical act produced a human victim. So does (so must, you might say) the final liturgical act. (Which is why, I suppose, the Church’s liturgy cannot be other than a re-presentation of Christ’s sacrifice. “It is finished,” as He said, and if we are doing something else or something more, then we are in some way continuing the line of insufficient liturgies offered between Abel’s death and Jesus’.)

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