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In 3 Minutes for God the Father

TRUTH LIVES WITHIN MAN

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“Do not go outside, come back inside: within man dwells the truth” (St. Augustine).

How often we seek outside, in the world, in events, in the media, in encounters and in other people, that which in reality we can only find within ourselves! We often forget that, if we live in a state of grace, the Trinity Herself has established Her dwelling place in our soul and has erected in it Her temple of truth. In this inner temple we can withdraw at any time and enter into an intimate dialogue with God within ourselves.

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VIA CRUCIS – V Station: “Simon of Cyrene Helps Jesus to Carry the Cross”                            

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  1. Adoramus te Christe et benedicimus tibi (We adore Thee, O Christ, and we bless Thee)
  2. Quia per Crucem tuam redemisti mundum (For by Thy holy cross Thou hast redeemed the world.)

If the Lord had just been comforted by the encounter with His Mother, who loved Him with all her heart, He now experiences Simon’s forced help. The Scriptures do not reveal to us what the Cyrenian must have felt when he suddenly found himself so closely bound to the Lord’s destiny. Did he simply do his duty and then go on his way? Or did the Lord touch his heart, so that something happened within him? Was he before a mere spectator of the events surrounding Jesus of Nazareth or was his heart already open to the Lord? We do not know!

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In 3 Minutes for God the Father

TRUTH LIVES WITHIN MAN

Author ElijaPosted on

 

“Do not go outside, come back inside: within man dwells the truth” (St. Augustine).

How often we seek outside, in the world, in events, in the media, in encounters and in other people, that which in reality we can only find within ourselves! We often forget that, if we live in a state of grace, the Trinity Herself has established Her dwelling place in our soul and has erected in it Her temple of truth. In this inner temple we can withdraw at any time and enter into an intimate dialogue with God within ourselves.

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In 3 Minutes for God the Father

THE GAZE TO GOD THE FATHER

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“From the cross of this world, which causes so much suffering, raise your gaze with me to the Father” (Inner Word).

The immense suffering He endured on the Cross of Calvary brought us Redemption. Jesus did everything with His eyes fixed on the Father in order to fulfil His will. As Saint Paul suggests, we too are called to share in the sufferings of this world: “Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the Church” (Col 1:24).

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VIA CRUCIS – IV Station: “Jesus meets His Mother”                               

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V. Adoramus te Christe et benedicimus tibi (We adore Thee, O Christ, and we bless Thee)

R. Quia per Crucem tuam redemisti mundum (For by Thy holy cross Thou hast redeemed the world.)

    An encounter of great depth… The Mother sees her suffering Son.

    She had said “yes” to the Father’s will and understood that her Son was the Saviour of the world. Now she sees Him walking this path of humiliation in order to exalt us men, just as the old man Simeon had foretold:

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    DELIVER US FROM EVIL

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    ‘…but deliver us from evil’ (Mt 6:13).

    This is the constant and imploring cry of the afflicted soul to God the Father: that He deliver her from the evil within her, from the evil that surrounds her, and from all the destructive forces of evil. We must never become accustomed to wickedness, to all the perversities and absurdities that we find on earth and in the human world. God never intended any of this! Our Father never meant to abandon His creatures to evil, but planned a different life for them. However, since He endowed His creatures with the freedom that corresponded to their dignity, they were able to abuse it and turn against God, thus perverting the meaning of their existence.

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    VIA CRUCIS – III. Station: “Jesus Falls the First Time”                               

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    1. Adoramus te Christe et benedicimus tibi (We adore Thee, O Christ, and we bless Thee)
    2. Quia per Crucem tuam redemisti mundum (For by Thy holy cross Thou hast redeemed the world.)

    The way of the Lord is unimaginably difficult! It was not only the physical suffering that tormented Him, but above all the weight of sin that He carried to the cross for us men. If a single sin weighs immensely on us until we have presented it to the Lord and received His forgiveness, how much more the countless faults of all mankind!

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    VIA CRUCIS – Station: 1. “Jesus carries His cross”                                  

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    1. Adoramus te Christe et benedicimus tibi (We adore Thee, O Christ, and we bless Thee)
    2. Quia per Crucem tuam redemisti mundum (For by Thy holy cross Thou hast redeemed the world.)

    In Roman times, criminals were punished by crucifixion. It was a death of dishonour and shame. The condemned died by suffocation.

    Jesus is not only condemned to crucifixion; He has to carry His own cross. They want to make a spectacle of Him for the people.

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    LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION

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    “Lead us not into temptation” (Mt 6:13).

    We all know that our Father does not allow us to be tempted beyond our capacity. On the contrary, He helps us to fight them and to grow in this struggle: “God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it” (1 Cor 10:13).

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