21 Jesus was crucified on the side of a precipice, the same way as the spotless lamb used to be cast alive into a precipice to “take along with it the sins” of the Israelites. 22 As Jesus was dying, the veil in the Temple was torn; it used to separate from man the sacred place where the Ark of the Covenant was located. Only the High Priest could enter it on the Day of Atonement, in order to spray the Propitiatory with the blood of the lamb… 23 Jesus, with His death was tearing that veil of separation, and opening the gates of Heaven to humanity, so as to clear the way for those who would desire to be saved. His mission was not, as in the case of the lamb, to cleanse the individual sins of His people, but to do away forever with the very power of sin. 24 Until the coming of Jesus, the Israelites would always bear in mind that their redemption, the forgiveness of their sins, was possible solely through the daily sacrifice and through the blood of the lamb, sprayed on the Propitiatory… 25 Today, Jesus is the perfect and absolute atonement because He is the mediator between the Father and mankind. We discover that it is not just Christ’s life of obedience, which obtains for us the forgiveness of our sins, but rather His death on the Cross (which is also relived daily in the Sacred Eucharist) that opens for us a beautiful way of freedom toward the love of God.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:45:05 +0000
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