Though we live in the finite world our finite lives operate also in eternity because we are spiritual creatures with an infinite soul. The soul does not die but when our earthly body dies our soul passes either to Heaven for eternity or to hell for eternity. Therefore by the grace of God what we do here has eternal consequences.
The work of redemption is not finished personally until we personally die and the soul is seperated from our body by God, this is why we must participate in our own salvation.
When Jesus said upon the Cross ‘It is finished’ He proclaimed the establishment of His Kingdom on earth for all eternity, never to be revoked and by His Eternal Sacrifice opened the door (as Jesus is the Door) to peace between man and God and for that peace to be eternal, in other words Salvation.
With Christ we are each co-redemptors. We are to actively participate in the Gospel wherein we each become a living word of God by our transformation in, by and through Christ Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit and in accordance with the will of the Father.
We each at the end of our lives can say ‘It is finished’ as we make our final sacrifice renouncing self and unite ourselves to Christ and His Cross by His grace.
It truly will be finished and finished well if we have lived our lives united to Christ in the Eternal Sacrifice of the Cross and to undertake this arduous journey spiritually and physically we enter into the eternal offering of Jesus at Calvary by celebrating in thanksgiving the Holy Mysteries of the Eucharist at Holy Mass.
When we hear the words ‘Well done My good and faithful servant’ we will know that for our part ‘It is finished’ and have faithfully entered into during our lifetime the Eternal ‘It is finished’ of Christ Jesus.
We may live in eternity now and do so whenever we make communion with the Triune God, the Angels and Saints or may do so unceasingly in unceasing prayer that is with the prayer of our lives.
Heaven and earth are not far apart, heaven is intimately close to us and by the power of the Holy Spirit a soul may enter into Heaven by the spiritual state of their soul even though they live on earth, by this I mean that the Kingdom of Heaven is close if the soul by the grace of God lives the Gospel and lives in love, therefore living in God. Of course there is no dwelling in the Beatific Vision and so on this earth we cannot ever say ‘It is finished’, we may only say this when we are blessed to behold God after our own personal calvary.
The Cross of Christ is Victory and our cross united to His is victorious also. It is the Victorious reign of God’s Kingdom and the fulfillment of the expulsion of satan from Heaven and now those who endure the Way of the Cross to live in Christ are also victorious over satan though they may fall because they may wash themselves clean again in the Precious Blood of Christ by way of Reconcilation and Confession so that none whom God has chosen may be lost and this is the Victorious work of Christ on the Cross and Risen from the Tomb.
‘No-one can take My children out of my Hand’
‘I have called you by name, you are Mine’
With our Blessed Virgin Mother Mary we can say ‘God has done great things for me’
A fruitful Lent to you and all posters
In my prayers
