"Transmitting
this requires us to be courageous: the courage of transmitting the
faith. A sometimes simple courage. I remember—excuse me—a personal
story: as a child every Good Friday my grandmother took us to the
Procession of Candles and at the end of the procession came the
recumbent Christ and my grandmother made us kneel down and told us
children, 'Look he is dead, but tomorrow he will be Risen! '. That is
how the faith entered: faith in Christ Crucified and Risen. In the
history of the Church there have been many, many people who have wanted
to blur this strong certainty and speak of a spiritual resurrection. No,
Christ is alive”.
3 comments:
It is an interesting relationship between the crucifixtion, the Resurrection, and faith. The crucifixion manifests the terror of human fraility; the Resurrection, the saving transformation of humanity. And there is faith, having something of both of these realities. It has the frailty of humanity but also the saving power of the Resurrection. Faith transcending history, space, time, the finitude of human nature, and even death in order to possess the God-man.
What a gift-- to have a grandmother who so simply but clearly passes on the faith to her grandchildren.
Amen, Frank! Amen, Vince!
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