7 words of Christ from the cross: Today itself you will be with me in Heaven


7 words for 7 days
The seven words of Christ from the Cross.

2) Today itself you will be with me in Heaven.
This is an extraordinary fruit of love and of his way of living it. One of the two sinnersconverts and defends Jesus by acknowledging his sins together with Jesus' innocence. “We deserve to die for what we have done but him is condemned unjustly”. Probably he had just heard what Jesus said in defense of those who were crucifying him and is now conquered by those words. He is about to die and is desperate but is conquered by the strength coming out from this estranged companion of his. In Him he sees a spark of light, an unexpected hope of life, a reason to accept his fate. He, a sinner, is conquered by the truth of what is happening and by a drop of faith, surely planted in him by the Holy Spirit. “Jesus remember me when you come into your kingdom”. Yes he has been conquered by Jesus, but conquered in the full meaning of this word because now Jesus can tell him: “On this very day you will be with me in Heaven”.
On this very day? “What about his many sins?” “It is not right”, we would say. “Right”: how many times we make use in the wrong way of this word just to defend our positions against others. But Jesus said: “My Father wants that none should perish of those he has entrusted to me”. This is “Right” according to Jesus. Justice in Mercy because to do what is “right” means to do what God wants and he wants that all of us be saved. If Jesus wanted to achieve human justice at any cost he would have not accepted to climb on the cross. But he climbed it and from there he reigns.
What about us, his followers? What is “Right” according to us? Jesus has already promised us his kingdom, but are we sure that we want to enter it according to his conditions?
Jesus does not answer to the second sinner, as he had not answered to those who were mocking him. I am sure that in his heart he has prayed for him and maybe, in the last breath of his life, he too has seen a spark from the Holy Spirit and has converted. When we go to Jesus Kingdom, will see what happened.
From the words of St. Luigi Orione: “Place me, O Lord, at the mouth of hell, so that through Your mercy I may close it. May my secret martyrdom for the salvation of souls be my paradise and my supreme happiness”.

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