Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC - Question n. 98 - Part III.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) The violent death of Jesus did not come about through tragic
external circumstances. “Jesus was delivered up according to the definite plan
and foreknowledge of God” (Acts 2:23). So that we children of sin and death
might have life, the Father in heaven “made him to be sin who knew no sin” (2
Cor 5:21). The magnitude of the sacrifice that God the Father asked of his Son,
corresponded to the magnitude of Christ’s obedience: “And what shall I say?
“Father, save me from this hour? No, for this purpose I have come to this hour”
(Jn 12:27). On both sides, God’s love for men proved itself to the very end on
the Cross.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 620) Our salvation flows from God's
initiative of love for us, because "he loved us and sent his Son to be the
expiation for our sins" (1 Jn 4:10). "God was in Christ reconciling
the world to himself" (2 Cor 5:19).
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) In order to
save us from death, God embarked on a dangerous mission: He introduced a
“Medicine of immortality” (St. Ignatius of Antioch) into our world of death—his Son
Jesus Christ. The Father and the Son were inseparable in this mission, willing
and yearning to take the utmost upon themselves out of love for man. God willed
to make an exchange so as to save us forever. He wanted to give us his eternal
life, so that we might experience his joy, and wanted to suffer our death, our
despair, our abandonment, our death, so as to share with us in everything. So
as to love us to the end and beyond. Christ’s death is the will of the Father
but not his final word. Since Christ died for us, we can exchange our death for
his life.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 603)
Jesus did not experience reprobation as if he himself had sinned (Cf. Jn 8:46).
But in the redeeming love that always united him to the Father, he assumed us
in the state of our waywardness of sin, to the point that he could say in our
name from the cross: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Mk
15:34; Ps 22:2; cf. Jn 8:29). Having thus established him in solidarity with us
sinners, God "did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all",
so that we might be "reconciled to God by the death of his Son" (Rom
8:32; 5:10).
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