{"id":4768,"date":"2023-04-03T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doxaweb.blog\/?p=4768"},"modified":"2023-04-03T17:12:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T22:12:22","slug":"iv-jesus-meets-his-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doxaweb.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/03\/iv-jesus-meets-his-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"IV: Jesus meets His Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the midst of a sea of angry, fearful faces, the Mother appears, her eyes tender, vulnerable, and heartbroken. \u201cI\u2019m here,\u201d she says; nothing more is needed. What else could we ask of a mother\u2019s heart? Jesus meets one heart in solidarity with His own, and it is enough. He studies her face: This face I will carry with Me all the way to Golgotha. Her loving face is the certain sign of My victory, the sure evidence that truly I will make all things new, that I will take stony hearts and make them hearts of flesh. In her face, I see this promise: the redemption of humanity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Love means being dependent on something that perhaps can be taken away from me, and it therefore introduces a huge risk of suffering into my life. Hence the express or tacit refusal: Before having constantly to bear this risk, before seeing my self-determination limited, before coming to depend on something I can\u2019t control so that I can suddenly plunge into nothingness, I would rather not have love. Whereas the decision that comes from Christ is another: Yes to love, for it alone, precisely with the risk of suffering and the risk of losing oneself, brings man to himself and makes him what he should be\u2026. I think that that is really the true drama of history.<\/p>\nJoseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Salt of the Earth<\/em><\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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