Saturday, April 10, 2004

For Holy Saturday...
another chapter from The Creed in Slow Motion by Msgr. Ronald Knox.
Dead and Buried
Here is a selection....
"We think of the Resurrection as an extraordinary thing; but that is really the wrong way to look at it. The Resurrection was, you may say, an inevitable event, an event which anybody ought to have foreseen. The pains of death, as St. Peter says, could not hold our Lord; of course they couldn't. No, the extraordinary thing was that the pains of death should ever, even for a moment, have the power to assail Him. And yet they did. I've tried to explain to you, in one of my earlier sermons, why it was fitting that this should happen, so far as our limited intelligences can attempt to account for such a mystery. But, however much you or I may understand it or fail to understand it, there is the fact; God died. And it is a mystery which will, perhaps, make it easier for us to understand other mysteries; other mysteries which will cross the path of each of us, as life goes on. I mean, when someone for whom we care deeply is taken from us by death, and we find ourselves murmuring at the back of our minds the old complaint: 'Why was this allowed to happen?' All we know is that God hung on the Cross, with his Blessed Mother beside Him praying a Mother's prayers; and He was allowed to die. "


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