We await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will change our mortal bodies, to conform with his glorified body. Cf. Philippians 3:20-21
What does a mortal body crave? Immortality. Is there anything in this finite world that can give us immortality? Not one thing, though indeed we keep searching for it. Every purchase, every bite chewed, every mile driven, every completed sentence is, on one level, a reach for the immortal. But all of it has an end. Therefore, we wait for the coming of real immortality.
How remarkable it is that God desires to glorify our mortal selves, even our bodies, discarding nothing He has made, instead saving every last fiber of our being. His Advent will be total and thorough, because we, in our immortal thirst, will be satisfied with nothing less.
Advent Post Series, 2015
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About Father Nathan Reesman
On Twitter: @FatherReesman
Father Nathan Reesman is a priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, ordained in 2006. He is the Shared Pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish, and also of Saint Frances Cabrini Parish, both in West Bend, Wisconsin. He is also the Courage and EnCourage chaplain for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Courage is an apostolate of the Catholic Church that ministers to men and women who experience same sex attraction.
Father Reesman is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, obtaining his Bachelors of Arts in Political Science in the year 2000. He completed his seminary studies at Saint Francis de Sales Seminary for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee in 2006, obtaining a Masters of Divinity. Father Reesman completed post-graduate studies at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake, Mundelein, obtaining a Doctor of Ministry in 2019.
