Easter 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
Communion and Liberation
Man is worth so much to God that he himself became man in order to suffer with man in an utterly real way, in flesh and blood, as is revealed to us in the account of Jesus' Passion […] and so the star of hope rises.
Benedict XVI
God was moved by our nothingness, by our betrayal, by our crude, forgetful and treacherous poverty, by our pettiness.
For what reason? “I have loved you with an eternal love, therefore I have made you part of me, having pity on your nothingness.” The beat of the heart is pity on your nothingness but the reason why is that you might participate in being.
Luigi Giussani
Caravaggio, Taking of Christ (detail), 1602. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Ireland and the Jesuit Community, Leeson St Dublino, who acknowledge the generosity of the late Dr. Marie Lea Wilson.
Photo © National Gallery of Ireland.