A different kind of Testament (S2E30)

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Meditation by Fr. Cristian Laslo Today’s reading presents us part of the Testament that Christ left for his followers. After His passion, He anticipates the apparition of false witnesses; He reassures his disciples about the end of the ages, and he impels them to a virtuous life, for “all things are lawful, but not all things are helpful. All things are lawful, but not all things build up.” (2 Corinthians 10, 23). We heard about the false prophets that will rise, those who never knew God, but will try to impose their ideas about Him; those who will ask for benefits for their sweet poisoned words. They were always present in the history, and always will be, but God said: “I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied” (Jeremiah 23, 21). All Scripture talks about the wolves dressed in sheepskin, inviting us to stay away from them, and to protect our Tradition and Sacraments. Regarding the end of the world, Jesus reminds us about the words of the Psalmist: “Of old thou didst lay the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They will perish, but thou dost endure, they will all wear out like a garment. […] thou art the same, and thy years have no end.” (Psalm 102, 25-27). All the creatures have a beginning and an end, and all the matter will change its shape, but God will be always the same. In this life the mankind has the same faith: “…one fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to he good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As is the good man, so is the sinner; and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.” (Ecclesiastes 9, 2). The difference will be made at the Last Judgment by the way we have lived our lives. The Gospels of this week lead us like a cortege through the last days of our Savior on the Earth. From Gethsemane to Golgotha we have witnessed the human weakness in all its shapes, but also the perfection brought by Jesus in the deified body. At the light of the Resurrection, Christ’s Passions are a triumphal march to life. The book of Isaiah prophesies about Jesus: “… he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.” (Isaiah 53, 12b). This verse is a good start when we meditate upon our lives. Do we feel sorry for our transgressions? How often we confess them? In order to maintain the grace and the Truth in our lives, do we use the prayer and the biblical readings? How often? Luke 21, 8-9, 25-27, 33-36

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