LEST´S MEDITATE ABOUT JESUS CHRIST.
He lived in the time of “Augusto
and Tiberio, emperors of the empire of Rome, his comtemporaries saw him working
with his hands as a carpenter, probably with a chip of wood in his ear, as a
sign of his trade, he walked in the ways that they can show us today. They saw
him eating bread and olives and those fishes that are a delicacy for his fellow
mates, at nigth they could see him in a mat or in a hammock, resting or
sleeping, dead tired, just like any other man, similar to any one of us.
Never the less he said the most
surprising words that can be heard: He said that he was the Messiah, that he
was the person that would promote his “chosen people” to its glory and culmination, and what is
most surprising, that He was the Son of God. and they belived Him and acompany
and escort Him along those ways of
Palestine, that He perenigrated through.
Prodigies came out of his hands with surprising easyness,
miracles of resurrections, miraculous cures, exortions, etc. however many of
them hoped for a political liberation from the romans, but his thing was
spiritual, and for the culmination of it, the end of his normal existance, all
came with a stroke to wich He did not put resistance. But far from geting
discouraged, his followers spread through all the world sealing with blood the
testimony of his divinity and from then on, the humanity has converted that
defeat in proof of his victory and
prostrate to the cross, ( his gallows, just imagine what would have to happen to make
of the electric chair an adorable thing )
All his life, from his birth, his
childhood, and adult existence was pletoric of supernatural evidence, and at
the third day of his death by unjust execution, he resurrected by his own power. St Paul says
that this is what confirms our faith, and if the ressurection had not taken
place, our faith would have been useless. BUT HE DID, AND ALL WHAT HE LEFT US IS VALID: THE
REVELATION THE TRADITION, THE GOSPELS, ETC.
Speaking of his Gospels the
Evangelical Beatitudes, taken as an example have possitibly influenced the
humanity since they were known, and will stay for all menkind until the end of times. It is amazing what
Jesus Christ, taugth, for our salvation, the Doctrine left for us, the Church
he founded, the gospels, Revelation and Tradition, inherited to his followers,
and the rest of humanity, in all the extention of its meaning. Nothing on earth
has the value of the Sacraments, that his church enables, being the Holy Mass
the center of our catholic life, it is the commemoration of the Sacrifice that
he offers as victim, to God Father, for
the love of us. This is a double consideration, he offers himself in painful
passion for He loves us and the Father offers his son, to be sacrificed, also
for the love of us.
In this days that we conmemorate
His Nativity, it is very usefull for our spirituality to contemplate this
ítems, along with the rolls of the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph, that took such
important and vital participation in His comming to this world, the gospels of
this liturgical time, tell those important happenings. We must pay special
attention to them.
Jorge Casas y Sánchez.
