{"id":5738,"date":"2024-03-29T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5738"},"modified":"2024-03-28T17:45:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T16:45:43","slug":"good-friday-where-are-you-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5738","title":{"rendered":"GOOD FRIDAY: WHERE ARE YOU GOD?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the days when Christ was in the flesh,\u00a0he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears\u00a0to the one who was able to save him from death,\u00a0and he was heard because of his reverence.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered;<\/span>
\nand when he was made perfect,<\/span>
\nhe became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Hebrews 5:7-9<\/span><\/h3>\n

In the incarnation, Jesus became fully human and became one with us in all our experiences. On the cross, he entered into the extreme experience of human hopelessness: the sense of having been abandoned by God.<\/h3>\n

He became one with us in all those situations where we cry out in darkness and despair: \u201cWhere are you God, why are you absent?\u201d<\/h3>\n

As we embrace Jesus Forsaken on this Good Friday, let us embrace the door that he opened through his suffering and death: his resurrection and ours.<\/h3>\n

St Eugene knew darkness and seeming-hopelessness many times in his life. Yet he recognized that in these dark moments, his Savior was present, and he attests to this in constantly in his writings. Just one example:<\/h3>\n

It is true that I have always put all my confidence in the goodness of God.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Henri Tempier, 16 February 1826, EO VII n 224<\/em><\/h3>\n

<\/h3>\n

OMI Rule of Life, Constitution 4:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

“The cross of Jesus Christ is central to our mission… Through the eyes of our crucified Saviour we see the world which he redeemed with his blood, desiring that those in whom he continues to suffer will know also the power of his resurrection (cf. Phil 3: 10).”<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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