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God’s Plan For Creation III1. The Holy Cross of Jesus Christ is at the heart of life, at the heart of EVERYTHING.
2. Recall Handel’s “Messiah” [quoting the prophet Isaiah]: “Behold and see…if there be any sorrow, like unto His sorrow…”. And: “He looked for someone to comfort Him…but there was no man”.
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3. EVERY SINGLE MOMENT, EVERY SECOND of our lives has meaning!!! Not only is human life NOT “meaningless”, as the modern and post-modern nihilists say. But exactly the opposite is true: every moment of our life is FULL OF MEANING!!! FULL of SIGNIFICANCE!!! How? Why?
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4. Recall that God is ETERNAL. He has always existed and He always will exist…He is completely transcendent from His creation and…“outside of time”.
5. As a result, when we humbly accept the crosses and sufferings in our life and offer them up to the Lord, we can, in a very real sense, COMFORT CHRIST ON THE CROSS!!!
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6. There is an eternal aspect to the Crucifixion of Christ [recall the theology of the Church regarding Holy Mass: “truly present at the Crucifixion” and “re-presentation” of Calvary].
Because Christ is God and God is “outside of time”, there is a very real sense in which the sufferings of Christ and the Crucifixion of Christ have a timeless/eternal quality.
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7. This is NOT to say that Christ is in any way still suffering. He is NOT still suffering. Jesus Christ, as a human person, lived on this earth approximately two thousand years ago and He suffered and died for our sins. He does not continue to suffer.
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8. BUT: Jesus Christ IS God as well as a human person. And so there is a very deep mystery here, which we cannot ever fully comprehend. He no longer suffers as a human person. True. And, of course, God Himself does not ever “suffer”. But, as God, there is a timeless aspect to the sufferings of the Man-God on the Cross, a timeless quality to His redemptive act.
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9. When we suffer, we can offer up our sufferings to the Lord and BE THE GOOD THIEF! We can turn to Christ and COMFORT Him in His suffering. AND… CO-REDEEM with Him.
Every moment of our life is FULL OF meaning, FULL OF significance!!!