The moral, mental and emotional side of the SUFFERINGS OF JESUS DURING HIS PASSION

[BarbaraTherese]

This not long at all article looks at another aspect of The Passion than the physical and the more moral and emotional and mental side of Jesus at the time of His Passion.

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A Drama of the Heart - Jesus’ Sacrifice
2008-03-16
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Just a couple of comments:

These contrasts capture, in essence, what Jesus did in the Garden of Gethsemane and on the cross. His passion was a drama of the heart, not an endurance test for his body.

Personally, I dont think that we should dismiss the physical side of the Passion. It is an aspect and a valid one of what Jesus endured. It is not the only aspect as Scripture is indeed totally inexhaustible in richness. As well as what Fr. Ron presents in his article, there is of course the theological and also the personal spiritual aspect…to mention only another two.

We have, I think, focused too much on the physical aspects of the crucifixion to the detriment of what was happening more deeply, underneath. Why do I say that? Because none of the gospels emphasize the physical sufferings, nor indeed, in the fears he expresses in conversations before his death, does Jesus. What the gospels and Jesus emphasize is his moral loneliness, the fact that he was alone, betrayed, humiliated, misunderstood, the object of jealousy and crowd hysteria, that he was a stone’s throw away from everyone, that those who loved him were asleep to what was really happening, that he was unanimity-minus-one.

Again, the moral loneliness of Jesus becomes far more unimaginable when we do insight something of what He was physically enduring at the time and what He knew was in all probability ahead of Him as He waited in prayer and indeed fear in Gethsemane.

God’s many blessings this Sacred Tridium…Barb

 

[Belle10]

Barb, thank you for sharing this and the article on the physical sufferings of Jesus. I will carry them both with me tonight and through Easter (and hopefully beyond ).

An early Happy Easter to you!

 

[BarbaraTherese]

Barb, thank you for sharing this and the article on the physical sufferings of Jesus. I will carry them both with me tonight and through Easter (and hopefully beyond ).

An early Happy Easter to you!

… …Deo Gratius! Thank you for the Easter greetings - and may this Easter fill you and yours with the Peace and Joy of Christ also…