As, We enter Holy Week in 2018 I believe that we should discuss the "Issue Of Betrayal".
To Discuss The Issue of Betrayal -- it is necessary to discuss the Issue Of Trust.
Human Lives live solely on Trust.
We learn about trust in our Families and Communities where we live.
Betrayal does not happen suddenly and without warning. There are warning signs that accompany the Ultimate Act Of Betrayal.
One cannot prove absolutely that a certain person can be trusted or is to be trusted. We learn about Trust through a Person's Faithfulness.
Faith in the Eternal Father is experienced by reaching out in acts of Prayer or by just risking our lives out of love for another person.
The Faith of Jesus Christ was tested to the hilt, in His Terrible Betrayal, in being handed over to the "Executioners" of His Day and ultimately in crying out in agony from the Wood of the Cross -- "My God, My God, Why have You forsaken me -- Why have you left me to die ??
Jesus Christ, after that Cry of Agony was totally obedient to the will of the Eternal Father in His Earthly Life.
His Passion begins as soon as he is betrayed when Judas, one of the "Go To Men" of the Apostles is a "Prominent Leader" with regard to the seizure of Jesus Christ in the lovely "Garden of Gethsemane".
Jesus must have well known the words of a Prominent Psalmist : "My Friend who I trusted has lifted His Heel against Me".
It must be remembered here that the previous evening -- namely on Maundy Thursday : Jesus, while sitting with His Disciples took Simple Bread and Wine and while breaking it and sharing it with His "Inner Circle of Friends" identified them as His "Precious Body and Precious Blood -- His Authentic Life to be shared with them.
Thus, We can say with some confidence that the Holy Eucharist which is the "Life of the Church" is instituted in the midst of betrayal happening very soon to the Lord.
The Catholic Church obeys the commands of Jesus Christ to share his life with all on the very night he was betrayed.
His Life as it was then and as it is now is shared among all people regardless of Race, Origin, Sex, etc.
Jesus Christ shares His Life with us who still betray Him by Succumbing to the Pleasures of a Pagan World.
Inspite, of all this He draws us to His Merciful Heart full of love and mercy.
This is "True Communion" with Jesus to the nth degree.
Credits : Trust By Father Ian Doulton S.D.B.
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Don Bosco's Madonna, Mumbai
March 2015
Vol - 16, N0-11
Note : Holy Week 2018 commences on the 25th of March -- Palm Sunday and ends on Holy Saturday -- The 31st of March.
To Discuss The Issue of Betrayal -- it is necessary to discuss the Issue Of Trust.
Human Lives live solely on Trust.
We learn about trust in our Families and Communities where we live.
Betrayal does not happen suddenly and without warning. There are warning signs that accompany the Ultimate Act Of Betrayal.
One cannot prove absolutely that a certain person can be trusted or is to be trusted. We learn about Trust through a Person's Faithfulness.
Faith in the Eternal Father is experienced by reaching out in acts of Prayer or by just risking our lives out of love for another person.
The Faith of Jesus Christ was tested to the hilt, in His Terrible Betrayal, in being handed over to the "Executioners" of His Day and ultimately in crying out in agony from the Wood of the Cross -- "My God, My God, Why have You forsaken me -- Why have you left me to die ??
Jesus Christ, after that Cry of Agony was totally obedient to the will of the Eternal Father in His Earthly Life.
His Passion begins as soon as he is betrayed when Judas, one of the "Go To Men" of the Apostles is a "Prominent Leader" with regard to the seizure of Jesus Christ in the lovely "Garden of Gethsemane".
Jesus must have well known the words of a Prominent Psalmist : "My Friend who I trusted has lifted His Heel against Me".
It must be remembered here that the previous evening -- namely on Maundy Thursday : Jesus, while sitting with His Disciples took Simple Bread and Wine and while breaking it and sharing it with His "Inner Circle of Friends" identified them as His "Precious Body and Precious Blood -- His Authentic Life to be shared with them.
Thus, We can say with some confidence that the Holy Eucharist which is the "Life of the Church" is instituted in the midst of betrayal happening very soon to the Lord.
The Catholic Church obeys the commands of Jesus Christ to share his life with all on the very night he was betrayed.
His Life as it was then and as it is now is shared among all people regardless of Race, Origin, Sex, etc.
Jesus Christ shares His Life with us who still betray Him by Succumbing to the Pleasures of a Pagan World.
Inspite, of all this He draws us to His Merciful Heart full of love and mercy.
This is "True Communion" with Jesus to the nth degree.
Credits : Trust By Father Ian Doulton S.D.B.
Page 3
Don Bosco's Madonna, Mumbai
March 2015
Vol - 16, N0-11
Note : Holy Week 2018 commences on the 25th of March -- Palm Sunday and ends on Holy Saturday -- The 31st of March.
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