“God meets us in our human condition where we are most in need. The New Testament verb for this is “save”: Jesus “saves” us, and that Greek word has the urgency of being “saved” by a lifeguard when someone would otherwise drown. Jesus saves us.” On the feast of Irenaeus, the great theologian of the Incarnation, Br. Curtis Almquist marvels at how God is united to us in our full – and flawed – humanity.