In the Son, therefore, heaven Is open to the world. He has opened the way from the one to the other and made exchange between the two possible, first and foremost through his Incarnation.... God's immense richness is concentrated and focused at this one spot, the humanity of Jesus Christ, so that here, in this single Person, "are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge", here "the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily", here stands the Eternally Beloved Son.... This is the meeting place where all the roads from heaven come together at the one “gate" through which every one who wishes to go to the Father must pass. It is a meeting place, too, of all the roads which crisscross the world's history.... Man... can feel … this immense, ineluctable convergence of all paths toward God, this channeling of all human relationships to God toward the one Mediator.... The contemplative [must grasp] the fact that the Mediator’s uniqueness has been established by God himself as the counterpart of God the Father's own uniqueness. Everything that radiates from this one Mediator, therefore, necessarily bears the stamp of their unity, a unity which always points to the Father but is at the same time universal and integrating, and hence catholic: "There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all" (Eph 4:4-6) Prayer, p.52-53
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