Thomas Reese: 'By participating in human suffering, Christ made it redemptive, not empty.'
This 2019 photo shows a statue of a crucified Jesus Christ inside the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Mendoza, Argentina.During Holy Week, we are called to keep our eyes on Jesus as he follows the path that leads him to Golgotha and death on the cross. When I was growing up in the 1950s, preachers used to emphasize that Christ was dying for our sins. Our sins — any sins — were so offensive that it took the suffering and death of Jesus to balance the scales, to atone for our sins.
Jesus never presents his father as a vindictive judge who can be satisfied only by the suffering and death of his son. Rather, Jesus tells us that his father is loving, compassionate and forgiving. Jesus tells us that his father does not want vengeance but only that we respond to his love by loving one another as brothers and sisters. Jesus saves us by incarnating the faithfulness of God to us, even to death on a cross.
We see this in the marked increase in antisemitism in our own country and around the world. Antisemitism is one of the greatest of Christian heresies and sins because it includes a hatred of the Jew Jesus and his closest relatives. Holy Week reminds us how soldiers arrested and tortured Jesus. Too often those who are supposed to protect the peace are used as instruments of oppression. The innocent are arrested, police violence is condoned, and the powerful are protected.
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