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I was just picking up on the phrase used by the previous poster. I believe that "walked the earth" is a simple way of saying "He was made Flesh upon it and was an inhabitant of it."

Yes, He did more than walk the earth. And He did more than shed His Precious Blood. He rose from the dead. He cured Peter's mother-in-law of a fever. He paid the Temple Tax out of the mouth of a fish from the Sea of Galilee. He founded the Church. He denounced the divinely appointed leaders of the Chosen People. He told, more than once apparently, a parable in which He compares the kingdom of heaven to a household that is grossly mismanaged in the absence of its lord by a wicked steward who in the end is cut in two.

He ascended into heaven from the Mount of Olives.

His feet left the face of the earth. His words live on. Right now His prophecies of cosmic doom seem to stand out as being particularly convincing, humanly speaking.

It's really all terribly sad.

I know people who say that they are trying to be good people who have the most atrocious notions about such things as abortion and gαy rights. ("I'm strongly opposed, but we have to be understanding of those who disagree...") But on some issues they are in perfect communion with the God's Truth in a way that puts even many Traditional Catholics to shame. They see something lewd and sacrilegious at the lord pope's World Youth Day on TV. They don't slap the face of the Living God by making pious little excuses for it. They grimace in contempt and sneer, "Turn this [trash] off. What a travesty. And how cheesy. How lame."

And they grew tearful when they saw the solemn pageantry and heard the Gregorian dirges at the funeral of John Paul II. And they said with hapless sorrow, "You know, there's something there I wish I could find..."

God became Man so that He could give fullness of Life in a WELL-RUN household bearing His Name to people who respond properly to the Grace of Redemption won by His shedding of MANY, if not MOST, of the drops of His Precious Blood at the place called the place of a skull.

To people such as those otherwise abominable people who nonetheless respond to lewdly sacrilegious "Masses" with proper Godly outrage, and not a phony baloney Baroque piety which asks, "What? L'il ole sinful and lowly me think badly of something Christ's Vicar vetted?"

What are the prospects nowadays for the drop of the Master's blood which was meant to provide the grace needed to strengthen men in their revulsion against the abominations of the Vatican II church?

And beyond that to give them the fortitude and the wisdom to gainsay those "pious Catholics" who justify the soul-killing shenanigans in the name of Catholic Humility and something Suarez or such a one (and who should know better than Suarez or such a one?) wrote on its being preferable that the lowly and ignorant faithful fall in trustingly with the errors of their Lawful Superiors rather than even right-minded and justly captious laity start making a habit of being too big for their breeches?

It would be the highest form of REAL piety towards the drops of Jesus of Nazareth's blood to mourn above all the trampling as a thing common and unclean of THAT particular drop: The drop shed to aid the faithful who are in fact destroyed by a stubbornly and falsely pietistic reading of the Roman Catholic book which favors the corrupt mighty and grinds the lowly -just by force of habit- into powder.

"Sorry, but there's a REASON why Christ called the ordinary faithful SHEEP..."

Spoken by a Modernist contemptious of anti-Modernist bleatings on the part of the flock, but resonant in Catholic circles only because of a pre-existing theology of contempt for any and all little ones... One whose fundamental perversity and malevolence were hidden under a phony zeal for Rome-worthy Law and Order....

ALL of the Old Testament proclaims Christ: We just might not care to understand how the fate of the Household He built -yes, on the Planet upon which He walked and shed His Blood for the salvation of men- relates to the bone-chilling lament of Solomon about leaving one's estate to an heir who proved disastrously unworthy.

"And who can tell if I shall leave my house to a wise man or to a fool? And could there be anything more vain?"

Israel was considered the center of the visible world back in the really, really olden days. The idea of its having been in a central location still makes sense if you look at a map of tje world known to the Egyptians and the Romans. But we know more about geography now. About New Zealand and the South Pole and such. We know more about divinely founded Churches and how they can end up too. Not that it's not all there in the Parable of the Wicked Steward.