Through Suffering and Resurrection Christ presents New Life to us - Part Three

Through Suffering and Resurrection Christ presents New Life to us - Part Three

Through the mystery of God that so much just occurred to remind us that the Lord’s forgiveness is not a simple imagination that might surpass all human aspects of understanding; it has all the deep mysteries of an impossible existence that calls for belief in something we are not ready to accept. 

Philosophers, Theologians, and speculators in the Cosmos are still at a loss to uncover the why’s and what’s of God; no beginning, no need of man, an entity that always will forgive us no matter what we have done, and continues to repeat if we just ask.  

How can a divinity that is the creator of something so far below his understanding create a world that was made for the ultimate existence of those who right from the beginning rejected his love?  What was in the mind of a “Taken you for granted” attitude?  In the Old Testament the people God chose to be his children had become the insolence of “I know better” and still he, the Lord, God, never thought twice regarding the love he had then and now no matter how much he gave himself over to evil men.  

If for one moment any of us decides to clarify the existence of goodness without including the Lord’s presence is a fool.

As one saint put it; “For life is to be with Christ;  where Christ is, there is life, there is the kingdom.”  (St. Ambrose.)   There is more to sacraments, Church Magisterium, and the lives given over to save humanity through suffering, we must adhere to the Blood of Christ through his Passion that brings every tenet of Mercy to life for us to extend to our brothers and sisters.  This is Mystagogy in a time capsule without a beginning or ending.  This mystery is the culmination of the Paschal Mystery that began from the Incarnation and will never end since we are the reason for God’s unending mercy on his only children for whom Christ suffered and died for.

No answer of a human question with regards to the mysteries of God will ever cross our intellect.  That premise of deciding God’s decision for creating man is in his love that reaches far beyond any psychological understanding in the finiteness of man.  God did and he will never go back on his decision of everlasting love for us.  That is Mystagogy!

Ralph B. Hathaway