BEADS OF JOY 03-24-18
“One Man Should Die”
©2018 James Dacey, Jr. OFS
My Friends,
Today’s Gospel: John 11:45-56 (Session of the Sanhedrin)
“Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him; but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. So, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council, and said, "What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. If we let him go on thus, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation." But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all; you do not understand that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish." He did not say this of his own accord but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. So, from that day on they took counsel how to put him to death. Jesus therefore no longer went about openly among the Jews but went from there to the country near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim; and there he stayed with the disciples. Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves. They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?"
Reflection:
Our salvation is found in the power of the Cross. Jesus teaches us to embrace our own crosses in life; a cross we sometimes don’t expect and wham our whole life is changed forever. Caiaphas just wanted Jesus dead, thinking by killing Him everything would die with Him. Wow, did they miscalculate that.
Jesus did die for us, He
took on every single sin, every single burden, including a humiliating painful
death; and He took it from us, so that through Him we might attain eternal
life. My friends, Jesus Christ LOVES us so much. The power that is in that
cross is beyond the power of anything, and everyone in this entire world.
Almighty God has placed His Only Son on a cross to save us, why would anybody
do that? It's because He loves us so much. God who is love, who is life, who
creates life, who has made male and female in His own image; took His Only Son
and had Him beaten almost to death, then humiliated and spit upon, to save all
of us from our death, so that we can be with Him for all eternity. It is
through Jesus' death on that cross that we can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. We
must do all we can in this life to make sure to the best of our ability, that
we indeed spend eternity with Him. A huge price has been paid for our
salvation. A man, a man of God was put in our place, to die for us.
My Prayer
Dear Lord, I must die
to my old self, I must never return to that old wretched miserable, sinful
person, I once was. I must turn away and never return back to my sin. Jesus you
alone, no one else must remain my only central focus, nothing can or should
ever come before you. We all know that life doesn't always make sense. Each day
we experience, pain, suffering, joy, loneliness, happiness and no understanding
as to why in some cases. Then we look around and we see You Lord and it all
makes sense. We must look at You Jesus first, then everything else makes sense.
There is so much power in the cross, in Your Cross, my cross. Don't be afraid
to embrace your cross. Thank you, Jesus. Amen.
Pondering these thoughts today: Think about this from St. Augustine: "The crucifixion is something that must continue throughout our life, not for forty days only, although Moses, Elijah, and Christ fasted forty days. We are meant to learn from them not to cling to this present world or imitate what it says, but to nail our unregenerate selves to the cross."
LOVE YOU GUYS !!!!
Your brother in Christ Jesus
And His Most Blessed Mother,
Jim (The Rosary Man) Dacey Jr OFS
Today is Saturday: We pray the Joyful Mysteries:
The Joyful Mysteries
1. The Annunciation (Humility) – Luke 1:26-28
2. The Visitation (Love of Neighbor) – Luke 1:39-45
3. The Birth of Jesus (Poverty of Spirit) – Luke 2:1-20
4. The Presentation (Purity of Mind and Spirit) – Luke 2:22-38
5. Finding in The Temple (Obedience) –Luke 2:41-50
I simply love Saturday mornings, because Saturday like every other day of the week -begins with the Rosary.
Rosary Man Jim’s Joyful Reflection: http://beads-of-joy-blog.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-joyful-mysteries_10.html
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