Seeking the Mercy of Christ, Find where it comes from!

Seeking the Mercy of Christ, Find where it comes from!

It should not become a silent opinion from unbelievers that may corrupt our own understanding of how grace will enhance our faith.  The Mercy bestowed upon us when we are balancing our faith with the intrusion of sin that can grasp our trust; is found through the Passion of Christ.  The one true element we find in our God who placed his Son’s Passion in front of our redemption.

Wait; he placed His Passion before the redemption that brought about his death on the Cross that then redeemed us?  Yes; because from the first moment of our creation the semblance of sin was already on the move and God allowed his Passion which entailed every drop of blood from Christ’s Crucifixion to take on the gentle and truthful Compassion of love to precede the nails and loss of blood because of our sinfulness.  

“If I…have not charity.” says the Apostle, “I am nothing.”  Whatever my privilege, service, or even virtue, “if I …have not charity, I gain nothing.”  Charity is superior to all the virtues.  It is the first of the theological virtues: “So faith, hope, charity abide, these three.  But the greatest of these is charity.”  (CCC 1826).  In a nutshell, using modern themes, this is God himself.

The practice of the moral life animated by charity gives to the Christian the spiritual freedom of the children of God.  He no longer stands before God as a slave, in servile fear, or as a mercenary looking for wages, but as a son responding to the love of him who "first loved us.”  (CCC 1828).  If we turn away from evil out of fear of punishment, we are in the position of slaves.  If we pursue the enticement of wages,...we resemble mercenaries.  Finally if we obey for the sake of the good itself and out of love for him who commands…we are in the position of children.  (St. Basil).     

For God to give to man, who resembles a thirst for sin, the compassionate entity of Passion, he is absolutely embracing the soul of man in a cubical of pure love; then he sends his Son to assume humanity and  proves that love knows no bounds and exists before human life, during human weaknesses, and waits for us to share his eternal life of love through Mercy.  

Hear these words; those of us who receive the Passion of Christ via his Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity through the Transsubstantiation at Holy Mass, have become the harvest of God’s Mercy even before we breathed our first life-giving breath.  

Without Compassion for his children; the human race, there never was the need for the Passion of Christ which is the complete essence of our God to extend to each one of us a redemptive sign of what Love is all about.

Ralph B. Hathaway