The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1957-04-12

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recall devoted love
the suerng Divine Lord endured for salvation Our
effort souls tender and holy
sentiment Rather purposive endeavor to make ourselves
aware of tremendous and present reality.
reality sufering death Godmade Man,
endured long undergone for each of who
alive they undergone with each one of us clearly
in the mind of Our Lord were all as truly present to HIS
divine knowledge and love the people who stood with
Him the mound of His Crucifxon.
For while Lord lived in time and suffered in
particular year He the Eternal Son of Godone and
essence Godhead with the Father and the Holy Ghost
And with God there neither past future Gods view time
less All ages all events all peoples all individuals are forever
Each of us looking upon the of the Passion, de
pcted imagination set before works of painting
and sculpture with unqualified truth that what behold
undergone ourselves Each may with complets
pious fancy merely that we stand with Our Lady under the
the distractions time and changing things keep
from knowing that we actually do stand there
is true that we use imagination help us envision the
of But this of imagination is far
from mere ndugng of fancy 1t is effort to make fancy
serve the Of Divine Re-
and loved and suffered for and redeemed
tcted and completed
Christ died for all Yes and He died for each With Cod
fused by muudes the divine understanding moi baed
by frnging details We likely in thought of God,
to mpute creaura limitations to Him. We cannot at
tend to things once; with thou
sand giving full attention to each all at the same
moment But creatures mted we have capacities
that can take but much. =
God limited all infinite that is without fnitel
than billions of people to God at the same
would have Gods full attention just that
one individual the only praying We who are very Inn
truth imagination under
stand fact. And it is fact
grasp things according capacities not
by capacities God knows all and wills the good of all
rot by faculty or power capacity but by being God We hare
understanding and will just have heart and
lungs but God does not haze anything What God has hat
o oa h m an thus od no
compromising and thing possessed God by being
God infinite Understanding infinite knowledge, infinite Will
Love
is our limitation the Being of that makes
involving ourselves merely members of the great hrng of
humankind Our faith well should help us in this
realize the individual and personal part have in
the great work OF human redemption
This effort of ours to understandngy rea
ties Aonement will also aid in appreciation of the
Glorious Resurrection find people who claim
the of Christian coming to Easter Day with silly prate
lips reurgence nature after winters sleep,
celebrating the actual rising of Christ from the dead by
some chilly hillside These people Resurrection
bol of natural events instead of taking natural events as symbols
of the Resurrection This is insane reversal of meanings
Surely realization of what to God and OF
what God the clearer of place in the
loving work of the Redeee must help in Passionde to
contron and determination to the grace
Christ for us in vrtuous and devoted life For the
Redemption, complete and perfect awaits of it. God
ST. Augustine who made without cooperation does
moi save us without cooperation" II the definition
of human character, human dignity Gods images
responsibility alignng lives with the
purposes Salvation getting hesven automatic
of the Redemption Easter is time for singing Beduum
Isle OF Somewhere Nor other time for tha matter
the opportunity of Pasontide shall be ready
and glory of Paschatde Let enter into
time sentiments but strong prods to
contron and good resolution We shall sorrow
those who have hope but with faith and un
derstandng.