On Good Friday, the core issue that defeats human history is both revealed and resolved.
The central issue at work is the human inclination to hate, despise and kill others, instead of dying ourselves - to our own illusions and selfish love.
Knowing this, Jesus dies “for” us, “in solidarity with us.”
Jesus’ crucified body is a picture of what humanity is doing and what God suffers with, in and through us. A picture of divine solidarity with our pain and our problems.
Whenever you see an image of the crucified Jesus, know that it is the central message unveiled. It reveals what humanity is doing itself and to one another.
We crucify one another.
Humanity hates and attacks what it has every reason to love: itself, God, and the rest of creation.
None of us really knows what we are doing until the outer crucifix becomes the inner resistance to every act of human war, torture, starvation, disease, abuse, oppression, and injustice.
On the cross, the veil between the Holy and the unholy is torn from top to bottom, the curtain of his body becomes a living opening through which we all can walk into the Holy of Holies, which on different levels is both our own soul and the very heart of God.
Nothing changed in heaven on Good Friday, but everything potentially changed on earth.
1 comment:
Thank you, dear Gerald. I'll be pondering this especially on Good Friday. I've never thought of it this way. I'm so grateful for your sharing the fruits of your contemplation dear friend.
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