Jesus Christ is our Ransom...
Bapa Eliseo "Jun" Mercado, OMI
The celebration of the Lord's Passion is the narrative of the PRICE Jesus paid that we may have life...
• He experienced the betrayal by one of his own …
• He found himself all alone before the powers of the world…
• The Custodians of the Law and the Covenant condemned him to die…
• The power of this world washed its hands and gave him away to be flogged and crucified…
• He was abandoned in his utter powerlessness and weakness…
• He died on the Cross as our Ransom!
Jesus was steadfast in his obedience to the will of his Father… He embraced, albeit with fear and trembling, the consequences of his decision to pay the PRICE that we may live and live to the full.
In Jesus’ Passion and Resurrection, our God is, truly, revealed…
• Our God is NOT the all powerful one, but the God who loves and who is willing to pay the price that we may have life.
• Our God is NOT the all victorious one, but the God who is courageous to rise up in every fall and always ready to pick up the pieces and to begin anew.
• Our God is the bread broken and shared and the blood shed to free us from the tyranny of sin and the evil in our heart
• Our God brings to fulfillment the covenant established with us by the blood of Jesus, our Lord! God’s fidelity endures for thousands of generations.
“It is finished!”
Go and tell the whole world, the Good News that Jesus who died for us on the CROSS is RISEN!
Happy Easter to one and all!!!
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