Friday, April 22, 2011

My Finger Is Swollen And Hurts Cutical Is Green

ONLY JUDE VELA! ...

In the Garden of Olives

What solitude of this Christ whose friends, all sleep, while Judas, Judas alone, sailing! Whenever the children of darkness are more awake than those of light
But the courage of Jesus is stronger than despair. And come back to prayer, now less worried, though perhaps more sad. Now you know that there is no other way but passing through death. His whole nature of man rebelled. Thirty-three years to their feet. Liked live. But now the appointed hour arrived. Do not fight against the will of his Father, however much he hated that ending.
why not now asking to be saved from death. Was limited to bow to the decision. "Father, if it is possible that this cup pass without my drinking it, thy will"
Now we must ask why the terrible fear, why this unprecedented horror. "Simple fear of death? "Panic at the cross and whipping? "Terror of loneliness?
Obviously there must be something more there, more horrible and profound.
death, physical pain, are obviously very little for those who have trust in God Jesus had. Had to be more, much more. There had to be infinitely more serious reasons than the pure fear of pain.
only a theological explanation may help us understand this scene. And that explanation is that at that moment Jesus enters and lives in all its depth the depth of what is going to be redemption for him. At that moment Jesus assumes in full all the sins that will die. At that moment he begins his Passion, Christ "made sin" as one would say given sentence penetrating San Pablo.
Die! That's no big deal! That is men, part of the human adventure! But it was not die, but to redeem, ie incorporate to his, all the sins of all men to die in the name and place of all sinners.
We tend to think that Jesus "charged" with the sins of the world as he takes a sack and carried on their backs. But that would not be a redemption. For there to be a real redemption must be a true replacement of the dying victims and to endorse all the blame for which the others were punished with eternal death.
endorsing them, incorporate them, is almost as much as comets. Jesus could not "commit" sins by dying. But if somehow I had not been part of their being true, there would died for those sins. And not one, two, a hundred sins. These are all sins committed since the world began to the end of time. One sin that he would not have been endorsed unredeemed, without the possibility of true forgiveness.
Thus, He was not making the author of the sins of the world, but it took them by proxy, they incorporated them to do. It was "sin" for us
All this means nothing. He knows very well live with his sin, but this will tear. The man knows what sin is, or if you know, forget it, or if you remember, does not measure its depth.

But Jesus knew all its dimensions sin is the opposite of God, total rebellion against his Creator.
was, therefore, endorsing what was the opposite of itself. He was radically opposed to incorporating the nature of his soul God-Man. I was becoming, by delegation, the enemy of his father, "the" enemy of his father, since he picked up all the gestures themselves hostile to him was sin for Jesus Become backhand return their nature, directing all its energies against the with all his energy was and lived.
Who would not feel dizzy to believe these things, if you truly believe in them?. Now, now explained around the tear. Never in the history of the world and that of all possible worlds has been nothing, nor can there be anything more horrible than this fact of God becoming a sin. Any bloody sweat, any human agony, not a pale reflection of this fear ..

The cloak of evil.
I want to quote a famous text from someone who has dared to look face to face this tragedy. It is a meditation by Cardinal Newman on "mortal pains" of Christ. Tremendous
At this time, the Savior of the world fell on his knees, stripping of the defenses of his divinity, away almost by force to the angels willing to respond in their thousands to his call, opening his arms and showing his chest to expose his innocence, to attack the enemy, an enemy whose breath was a mortal pestilence, whose embrace was an agony.
And so remained kneeling, motionless and silent, while the enemy unclean spirit wrapped in a robe steeped in all that the human crime is more heinous and atrocious, and tightened around his heart. And, meanwhile, invaded his consciousness, penetrated in every sense, in every pore of his spirit and he lay on his moral leprosy until he felt almost become what they never could become, as its enemy had wanted to convert. What was his horror when the look was not recognized, when he felt like an impure, a detestable sinner, in his keen perception of the heap of corruption that rained on his head and ran down to the edge of his robe! What was their loss when he saw their eyes, hands, feet, lips, their hearts were like the evil one, and not those of God! Are these the hands of the spotless Lamb of God, until that moment innocent but now a thousand red and bloody barbaric acts? Are these the lips of the lamb, the lips that uttered no prayers or praise, or thanksgiving, but they are unclean oaths, curses and demonic doctrines? Are these the eyes of the Lamb, eyes defiled by impure visions and idolatrous fascinations why men abandoned their adorable Creator? Echoes in his ears the clash of parties and the fighting, his heart is frozen by the greed, cruelty, disbelief, their very memory is oppressed by every one of the sins committed since the first fall of man in all regions of the earth.
opponents come on you all these millions, come in squadrons outnumbered pests of locusts, hail the whips, flies and frogs sent against Pharaoh. Sins of the living and the dead, the sins of the unborn yet, the damned and the saved, the sins of your people and all foreigners, of saints and sinners, all sins are here. Truly only God is capable of supporting so much weight!

What is death, what are the thorns, what the whips and vinegar with this horror? "My Jesus, and I, where am I? Do you also sleep? Do you also leave you alone that night? "What will never leave you alone but to stay with you, wide awake in my faith, in total adoration, with an unreserved surrender to You ..." (Sister Isabel of the Trinity)

* P. Marco Antonio Foschiatti OP

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