How many
deaths we must pass through to be wise, and these little deaths are a subset of
the one great death which has already been won over for us on Calvary through
our Baptism. The life we live now is hidden with Jesus in Christ (Col 3:3).
We shall have
to pass through rivers, cross through seas and navigate through oceans of trials before we can attain our freedom. Let us sail with the Star of the Sea who can guide us from
the Inferno of life, through its Purgatorio and unto the bliss of its Paradiso,
where our tragedy is changed into a Divine Comedy.
The softest landing we can experience during a deep crisis, is to find ourselves in the arms of the
Blessed Virgin, that is why we ask her to aid us now, and at the hour of our
death in the Hail Mary. And a sword
shall pierce your own soul … (Lk 2:35). Let us have recourse to Mary, the
pitiful maiden who receives the dead body of her son from the cross.
When the Crucifix
becomes the Pieta, Easter can already be smelt from afar. The Crucifix and the
Pieta should make their space in every home.
Albert Einstein
clearly expresses the 13th Station emotion when he noted that the years
of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the
intense desire and the alternations of confidence and misgiving until one
breaks through to clarity and understanding, are known only to him who has
experienced them himself.
Pain may endure
to the nights but joy cometh in the morning (Ps 30:5). It cannot get worse,
things can henceforth get better. Where many without faith have
fallen into despair, here let us keep hope alive.
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