{"id":5434,"date":"2023-04-01T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T23:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5434"},"modified":"2023-03-27T02:03:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T00:03:28","slug":"saturday-v-lent-having-loved-his-own-he-loved-them-to-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5434","title":{"rendered":"SATURDAY V LENT: having loved his own he loved them to the end"},"content":{"rendered":"

But one of them, Caiaphas,\u00a0who was high priest that year, said to them,<\/span><\/h3>\n

“You know nothing,\u00a0nor do you consider that it is better for you\u00a0that one man should die instead of the people,\u00a0so that the whole nation may not perish.”<\/span><\/h3>\n

John 11:49-50<\/span><\/h3>\n

It was not enough for the incomprehensible love of the divine Saviour to come down from heaven…\u00a0 to proclaim the truth and to teach his sublime doctrine, for three years, in the midst of contradictions and the persecution of men, finally to deliver himself to the hatred and the rage of the wicked to the point of shedding his blood to the last drop on Calvary. No! Having loved his own he loved them to the end and he loved them especially at the end<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene de Mazenod’s Diary, 16 April 1850 EO XXII<\/em><\/h3>\n

REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Jesus on the cross feels the whole weight of the evil, and with the force of God\u2019s love he conquers it; he defeats it with his resurrection. This is the good that Jesus does for us on the throne of the cross. Christ\u2019s cross, embraced with love, never leads to sadness, but to joy, to the joy of having been saved and of doing a little of what he did on the day of his death.<\/h3>\n

\u00a0Pope Francis<\/h3>\n

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But one of them, Caiaphas,\u00a0who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing,\u00a0nor do you consider that it is better for you\u00a0that one man should die instead of the people,\u00a0so that the whole nation may not perish.” … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}