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SUMMARY:Blessed Martyrs of Rochefort
DESCRIPTION:AN EXCERPT FROM THE ENCYCLICAL “SALVIFICI DOLORIS”\nby Pope St John Paul II 6\n◊◊◊ \nThe Cross of Christ throws salvific light\, in a most penetrating way\, on man’s\nlife and in particular on his suffering. For through faith the Cross reaches\nman together with the Resurrection: the mystery of the Passion is contained in the\nPaschal Mystery. The witnesses of Christ’s Passion are at the same time witnesses\nof his Resurrection. Paul writes: “That I may know him (Christ) and the power of\nhis Resurrection\, and may share his sufferings\, becoming like him in his death\, that\nif possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead”. Truly\, the Apostle first\nexperienced the “power of the Resurrection” of Christ\, on the road to Damascus\,\nand only later\, in this paschal light\, reached that ” sharing in his sufferings”… \nThe witnesses of the Cross and Resurrection were convinced that “through\nmany tribulations we must enter the Kingdom of God”… Thus to share in the\nsufferings of Christ is\, at the same time\, to suffer for the Kingdom of God. In the\neyes of the just God\, before his judgment\, those who share in the suffering of Christ\nbecome worthy of this Kingdom. Through their sufferings… they repay the infinite\nprice of the Passion and death of Christ\, which became the price of our\nRedemption: at this price the Kingdom of God has been consolidated anew in\nhuman history\, becoming the definitive prospect of man’s earthly existence. Christ\nhas led us into this Kingdom through his suffering… \nTo the prospect of the Kingdom of God is linked hope in that glory which has\nits beginning in the Cross of Christ… If\, in fact\, the Cross was to human eyes\nChrist’s emptying of himself\, at the same time it was in the eyes of God his being\nlifted up. On the Cross\, Christ attained and fully accomplished his mission: by\nfulfilling the will of the Father\, he at the same time fully realized himself. In\nweakness he manifested his power\, and in humiliation he manifested all his\nmessianic greatness. Are not all the words he uttered during his agony on Golgotha\na proof of this greatness\, and especially his words concerning the perpetrators of\nhis crucifixion: “Father\, forgive them for they know not what they do”? To those\nwho share in Christ’s sufferings these words present themselves with the power\nof a supreme example… \nIn the Paschal Mystery Christ began the union with man in the community of\nthe Church. The mystery of the Church is expressed in this: that already in the act\nof Baptism\, which brings about a configuration with Christ\, and then through his\nSacrifice—sacramentally through the Eucharist—the Church is continually being\nbuilt up spiritually as the Body of Christ. In this Body\, Christ wishes to be united\nwith every individual\, and in a special way he is united with those who suffer…\nChrist has in a sense opened his own redemptive suffering to all human suffering.\nIn so far as man becomes a sharer in Christ’s sufferings—in any part of the world\nand at any time in history—to that extent he in his own way completes the suffering\nthrough which Christ accomplished the Redemption of the world… Only within\nthis radius and dimension of the Church as the Body of Christ\, which continually\ndevelops in space and time\, can one think and speak of “what is lacking” in the\nsufferings of Christ. \n6 Pope John Paul II. Salvifici Doloris. Part 21. www.holysee.org. Accessed: August 11\, 2023.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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