if it weren't for the doctrine of the infallibility of scripture it would be hard for anyone to
believe the words that we have just read from the holy scripture it is hard to believe because the
one who is ultimately crucified is also god and that he would submit himself to such torment
would be beyond the natural ability for any man to comprehend and so to in order to understand it
we must have a key we must have some way to discern why this event took place and what the
ramifications were for the whole of humanity and it can be found in the very fact that to us sin is
easy it is an easy thing to us we think little of it we can't come we can't comprehend how the creator
could care
that much about it our imagination convinces us it doesn't deserve retribution we have all
at one time in our life used those words i am not hurting anyone and yet today we learn that
someone was hurt and they were hurt very dearly and we make these excuses and we don't fully
understand sin because it is so familiar to us it is so close to us to the lord sin is foreign
it has no meaning to us it has no meaning to us it has no meaning to us it has no meaning to us
it has nothing to do with him to us it is welcome and so he whom it could not touch had to bear the
weight of our sin not just my sin not just this one sin or that one sin but he had to bear the
weight of all sins the sins of the whole world and and he did this in order to convince us of
its seriousness and its antagonism to all to the all holy god and so the lord takes sin upon
himself as an act of mercy towards us so that we may begin to comprehend the depths and the meaning
of sin and christ by taking our sins on his shoulder does so to show us that sin can be
defined in a very precise way it is a rebellion against god and hence a rebellion that all is good
because as scripture tells us god alone is good it is the act of a traitor who aims at the overthrow
and the death of his sovereign
is none other than god the one who brings us into existence out of nothing but when we say
nothing we mean he had no pre-existing matter in which to in which to create but rather he brings
all things out of nothing but not the nothingness of his love for all things are created by the love
of god and it is to that love that all things must return and so it could not touch his divine
majesty and so god had to find a way to bring us into existence and to bring us into existence
and so god had to find a way to repair for the sins of man for sin cannot touch the majesty of
god but god found a way in order to to be touched by sin and once he chooses to become man he
subjects his sacred humanity to the laws and so sin the enemy of all that is good and true
seizes the opportunity and assails our lord's sacred humanity with all the vigor of its
antagonism towards eternal purity it is sin that is the enemy of all that is good and true
that will be the cause of the very death of god in his sacred humanity and in the passage from
scripture we learn that in the garden of gethsemane it fixes it it fixes itself to his to him by way
of anticipation so that the very horror of its core so that the very horror of its cause the
sacred humanity of christ to feel like sin so much so that the very soil of gethsemane trembles
as it is saturated with the blood
not of a mere man but of the god man and so he who is without sin truly feels the oppressiveness
of sin on his sacred humanity and so the blood of christ will be poured forth in gethsemane
as a prefiguration of that pouring forth on mount calvary cain is there the lustful cities
of sodom and gomorrah are there both of old and of new the obdurate stubborn egyptians are there
the obdurate stubborn egyptians are there the obdurate stubborn egyptians are there
both the old egyptians and the modern egyptians the ambitious men of babel are there both the old
men of babel and the modern men of babel the ungrateful chosen people are there the church
the people of old and the new people we are there all are there we are all there individually and as
members of a nation that is collectively and we point the finger of sin to the all at the all holy
god then in an instance of the holy spirit of the holy spirit of the holy spirit of the holy spirit
in an instant all of us individually and collectively as as the brood of satan leap in a
sail the all-loving god and creator of the universe and as cardinal newman points out it oppresses him
and causes that sacred blood to be poured forth like like the juice of the grape in the wine press
saturating the earth be purpling the garments of the son of god it is all there now on his shoulders
and the weight oppresses him
and pushes him to the very ground as that same ground trembles at receiving the blood of its
creator but when we say all we always point out that the exception proves the rule not all are
there one is not there that is the mother of god not in spite of her holiness but because of it
she is not there because she cannot be where sin has its day of darkness her presence would have
him who desires no consolation at this time and so the mother alone isn't there is not there but
she begins this very day to preserve faith for all of humanity she will in the end be the singular
vessel of divine faith in her alone faith will burn bright during these dark moments for mankind
and for all of creation and so the lord is oppressed in gethsemane
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towards them in order to deliver himself into their very hands and there be bound and here
we must pause and ask the question is it possible that all these things are true that all these
things came to be if it were not possible then when there would be no purpose for our being here
and indeed there would be no purpose for our creation for we would be unable to return to all
that is love that is unable to return to God and so he had proposed to his disciples previously
that he came to drink the chalice and he came to drink it to the very dregs that is all the
suffering that the eternal father demanded in reparation for the sin of man and so in Gethsemane
the chalice of the Lord is not drained it is not exhausted indeed in the garden he merely
taste he taste that which is to come now it must unfold about him in a chronological order
that is each and every event that has already pressed more blood from that sacred humanity
than anyone could endure except he who loves and loves with a completely and totally unselfish love
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someone other than himself that other for the Lord is humanity and so he begins to taste this
in the garden of Gethsemane showing that he is the true lover of humanity now he is seized
he is tried he is buffeted and imprisoned he is mocked and passed about scourged and crowned with
thorns marched to and crucified on Mount Calvary and here it unfolds in chronological order each
one augmenting the suffering of the past one or as Saint Alphonsus de Liguri points out in the first
scourge received by our Lord on those sacred shoulders he would experience more physical
suffering than all of the physical suffering of all humanity combined from the beginning of time
until the end of time and with each event that suffering is not added to but multiplied so that
it becomes a literally a crescendo of the suffering of all humanity and so in Gethsemane
the Lord speaks not a bitter word to the cowardice of men for what man
the Lord speaks not a bitter word to the cowardice of men for what man
the suffering of suffering suffering unbearable except for him who bears it by his love and so the final insult will be inflicted and here we pause and ask is it possible for when the mother's presence would have consoled in the garden here it augments the suffering to the highest possible crescendo and at Calvary the Lord speaks not a bitter word to the cowardice of men for what man
seeing a mother who had to endure this being done to her child would not have least suggested to take her from that which would cause her so much agony but there is no kind word to remove the mother of God this day there is no attempt by sinner by apostle or disciple to take the mother away for she too must be at Calvary to drink also to the very dregs the suffering of her son for our sake
seeing a mother who had to endure this being done to her child would not have least suggested to take her from that which would cause her so much agony but there is no kind word to remove the mother of God this day there is no attempt by sinner by apostle or disciple to take the mother of God this day there is no attempt byits to take the mother of God this day so that turning to apply to prayer she was thinking about what to do through God's grace will be already obvious that was being preached to and the food of the Lord will be really have hope that brethren we must all learn and never forget that feeling compassion for generalized asood Stri ki
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to act accordingly for we must receive it according to lawzos' blessings
accordingly for we must all strive to have the actions of Christ in our hearts
and in our souls feelings here serve us nothing if we do not have the actions
that accompany them and so our Lord called us to that highest of all virtues
charity and he says of the world what does it profit us if we were to gain the
whole world and to suffer the loss of our souls in the process but yet titles
and honors power and authority success and diplomas and all things cause us to
forget the first precept of charity for God in giving us the precept of charity
says that we must love God above all things and then he commands us to love
our neighbors as ourselves for God's sake that is charity begins first and
foremost when we defend the honor in the good name of Christ
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not compromising what he had done for mankind today as we enter into the
sacred tritium the world would dust out all its scientific evidence that refute
that Christ underwent this ordeal for our sake and often we stand speechless
in the face of such blasphemous treatment of such high love and so we
must constantly remember that if we are to exercise charity it must begin first
and foremost with the love of God and the love of God and the love of Christ
first with love of God and then love of neighbor it is the modern way of
modern-day tyrants that emphasize love of neighbor at the cost of love of the
good Shepherd and so faith is compromised and love of God wains in the
world let us strive by the Lord showing us the depth and profundity of sin in
what it does to ourselves and to all humanity let us strive by our actions to
him to defend Holy Mother Church and to defend our faith at all cost in all
times and in all seasons for the Lord tells us we must do it both in season
and out of season not simply when it is good in a Christian culture but more
importantly we must do it in a culture that is not Christian for without the
love of God there is no hope for humanity without the love of God there
is no hope for fallen man and so it is that God shows us very clearly and in it
all we must have the complete confidence in hope that the Lord is in control at
all times when he cries out in a loud voice
Scripture never intended us to understand that he does so in some type
of existential angst as if someone is confronted and agonizing in despair but
it is very clear from the original language that when it says
he cried out in a loud voice it has as one who is in control and why does he
cry out because the appointed time of the Father has come and so science can
ask the question what caused the death of this man but it is not to science to
declare for it was not a loss of blood it was not a heart attack it was not the
agonizing cramps that such things caused
love was not the cause of death
was what caused the death of God, his love.
It said, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
That is, it was the will of the Lord.
And so the answer is very simple in its profundity.
Why did all this take place?
As Saint John tells us, because God is love
and love has desired to reconcile us to himself.
And so let us strive to have that love burning brightly
always in our hearts as we journey
through this life by faith.
For now we see by faith alone.
Tomorrow, that is on Easter, we will see by vision,
that is by glory.
For ultimately, when the Lord talks about Easter
and the resurrection, it is not the resurrection
in this life that we are striving for,
but resurrection in the life to come,
where we see our good God as he truly is.
And so in heaven,
there is no room for faith.
There is no room for hope.
Only charity remains in which we love our God truly
above all things.
And so let us strive as we journey through this life
to be strengthened for we know what has been read to us
is true because it has the authority of God and the proof
that the one whom he has entrusted with all his mysteries
has persevered even though she too has undergone
the same persecution of her Lord and Savior.
The church was here yesterday.
She is here today and she will be here tomorrow,
preaching always the love of God,
always the crucifixion,
always the call to enter into the suffering
of the Lord in this life in order that we may truly
be with him for all eternity in the life to come.
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