These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.

Wednesday, Week V, Ordinary Tim

The LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being. (Gen 2:4b-9, 15-17)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/021225.cfm
The second creation story doesn’t beat around the bush . . . it gets right down to business with the creation of man (and eventually woman). The image of God blowing into our nostrils the breath of life is repeated in the Fourth Gospel when the Risen Lord breathes on the disciples the breath of the Holy Spirit.