Into the Realm of Sanctity through the Sacrifice of Christ

Into the Realm of Sanctity through the Sacrifice of Christ

Spend your waking days in prayer and continue with “Mea Culpa” and find there is something missing through your intense closeness; the reality that has missed the very essence of the Passion of Christ that forgave all of us in spite of our constant kneeling and uttering prayers without a deepness of who we are.

As we pray numerous ejaculations to God, make it a rule to envision the Passion along with the words.

Understanding the depth of personal sins that we believe prayer alone will remove is to be led by the enemy that proposes an absence of the intercession of the blood that Christ shed and the depth of his words from the cross;  “It is finished.”  (Jn 19: 30).

Herein is one word that completes his Incarnation to his Resurrection: “Finished!”  We must go back to the Creation and notice how much love was established as the Holy Trinity agreed that man, because of his Free Will, would in fact find that the evil in the world would indeed corrupt man’s intention by self-interest.  

God did not make a mistake by giving man free will since it was necessary in order to find God through his own desire.  So, God deigned to make a pathway to eternal life for man by taking on the sacrifice of himself as a payment for the ransom that Satan incited upon God’s illustrious creature:  Mankind.  

It took centuries and multiple prophets to instill within man’s weaknesses a pattern that would lead to the Cross and the death of Jesus to complete the journey of bringing salvation for humanity.

With each blow of the hammers affixing his hands and feet to the tree and each attempt to take another breath had Satan hoping this would be his victory.  Little did he admit that the more pain our Lord adhered the closer did the devil get to his finish.

When building a structure for people to live in or use for commerce, and the last nail, screw, or length of electrical wire is installed and the power is turned on; the workers can stand back and proclaim it is finished.

But Jesus cried out again in a loud voice, and gave up his spirit.  (Mt 27: 50).  And the words “It is Finished” becomes the final chapter of goodness against evil.  Satan has received his final blow and mankind has accepted his salvation forever.

Ralph B. Hathaway