One who was born to history “in the fullness of time” and who is, at the same time, before all things and the end of all things. When we recall that such images were almost always painted for sacred spaces, Olivier Clément’s observation is apt: “The dance of the liturgy does not seek the dissolution of time into a static eternity that is at once pre-existent and co-existent. Instead, the liturgy of the Church unveils and celebrates the true eternity that, rather than being opposed to time, is revealed in the very heart of temporal existence.”
