As we come to the close of the Lenten season we contemplate
on the meaning of these days.
Susan Stabile in her blog shares:
Week 3 of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius invites us to
be with Jesus in his passion and to enter into his perspective. St. Ignatius
wants us to focus on Jesus’ experience – being with his feelings all the way
through the passion, including on the cross, all the way to his death.
But it is not just about
Jesus’ feelings, but also about his response. My friend Maria Scaperlanda
quoted in her blog post last night her friend Father Thomas
Boyer, who said:
The Passion of Christ is not about how Christ suffered, what
happened to him, and how awful we might think it was. The Passion of Christ is
about his response, not his persecution…
Watch and learn from the master. Despite his fear and his agony,
he is focused on God and on others. He meets women who are weeping for him, and
he tells them to weep for themselves. He hangs there with a criminal, and he
comforts him with a promise of Paradise. No matter what happens in this
Passion, it is never about him. He remains attentive and focused on God and the
needs of others… This is what we can learn from the Passion; not how Christ
died, but what he still teaches us through his death about hope, about
sacrifice, and about love for others.
In your meditation time watch and learn from the master.
Blessings and Love
John
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