the 7 words of Christ from the cross: 7) All is accomplished
7 words for 7 days
The seven words of Christ from the Cross.
7)
All is accomplished.
All is accomplished, accomplished not ended. All
has now reached its fulfillment. The plan of mercy and salvation
prepared by God now has reached its aim. The suffering of Christ has
borne fruits. The
gate of heaven is open wide. Now a deep silence has fallen upon
earth. On one side the silence of the unbelievers who do not know
what to said in front of tragedies; on the other side the silence of
the believers who have found now the answer to those tragedies but an
answer which does not need words but adoration. Now they put Jesus in
the tomb. He enters the womb of the earth and to close the arc of
life. He entered life passing through the womb of his mother and now
exits it passing
through the womb of earth. As he blessed the first with its birth so
he blesses this with his resurrection because nobody enters a womb to
remain there but only to form himself and pass to a new life. The
soldiers put a great stone as to say life is ended. That same stone
on Sunday morning will roll away, not to allow Jesus to come out,
since he does not need that, but to allow us to get in and see that
life is not ended. A new life has started, a new era, the era of the
Kingdom of God, his kingdom of love and mercy.
What about us? Are we like those who remain
outside the sepulcher as if Jesus is still inside or are we running
to the world to announce his resurrection? Are we among the pessimist
who live for death of believers who shine in the light of joy and
resurrection?
From the words of Saint Luigi Orione: “I see
only a heaven, a heaven that is truly divine, because it is the
heaven of salvation and true peace: I see only a kingdom of God, the
kingdom of charity and forgiveness, where the whole multitude of
peoples is the inheritance of Christ and the kingdom of Christ."
… “"Perfect joy can exist only in the perfect dedication of
oneself to God and to mankind, to the most wretched as well as to the
most physically and morally deformed, to those farthest away, to
those most guilty, to those most hostile.”