The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1957-04-19

Today we contemplate the death of Our Divine Lord
the Cross and look forward to the glory of the Resurrection our
dominant thought overwhelming love of God
for each of human beings In this world likely
ourselves with silly pride we attach Importance to our
looks talents wealth position and we ex
all others to recognize that Importance We resent not
only insult but neglect.
Yet selves know,-or hafknow for we
dislike looking at squarey-tha worth little
our What life been despite few great
heroic details of conduct but prolonged story OF
negligence futy laxy Indifference high ideals lsziness
seishness and other Surely often cried in
of honest and prayerul seexamiration What
is man that Thou are mindful OF him.!
Nevertheless man worth If we
above the scarcely overvaue
ourselves consider the right reasons When we ask God
"what that Thou mindful Of hm? we should look
answer leave the question exclamation
We find the true answer In our taHn
For the faith assures us that Gods reply question
this "Man is my child he my image he is made
for my glory and his own endless hi NO S ms'sr neusr wns
mnshed diamond lose its awdry set
ting its essential briance is not destroyed though be overland
with filth its beauty and permanence despite whole
lifetime vile have made love- and nave lett
nothing undone instruct him in his true value and to induce
him to use the means enable him to win
free from sin and obtain heaven.
The means God established for mans salvaon,the
incarnation the Aonmen and Redemption the Church and the
Sacramens ready for mans If man but rea-
his value the responsibility that rests upon
him for the ultimate of his life he will take up the use
these apply them with and enduring deVo
ton.
is to God we must estimating the value of not
to mans own mistaken judgements about what constitutes his
good Health and wealth and abundance of means position
Influence prominence and worthwhile conrbu-
temporal webeing all these things can De good IN
their place. but their place primary And to put second
things in the place of primary things to upset the Wnoe
structure of right conduct
Our Lord suffering dying the teaches his
value and his in existence is the love OF God
important the heaven painfully merited for man
that counts No matter may think myself is the image
of Crucified that teaches what ought to think
am made TO and God Not that am to contr-
anything God who is infinite in all perfection and to
whom nothing be supplied No. is not to obtain
anything that God made me- but to beow eternal gooo upon
me this good can by loving and serving God And
do that by making will subsevlen to the divine Will not
religion philosophy and debating to the
Almighty plans and purposes In the eonouct OF my
For there is danger will think he is favorng
God by right living likely to think that he eonfers
rather than realizing that he is benefltng him.
self sometimes reminder expressed well in an
article in recent Saturday Review THE hope of
salvation loves God but that God loves man.
CHRISTIANITY is not discovery technique; is revelation
Its history has done for God but what COD
has done for man.
What God has looks down upon us from the
face Of the crcid business to further
agnng ourselves with it, and not by adopting some
feeling Of alwelm Religion does not consist In
Arnold haracterizes FF that is funny interior
feeling"
God became man And He teaches us by that
death live for Him and for own salvation we
are things that allure but cannot fulfill u.s. TO
that leave behind us when we de- we are 10 V
in the things that last eversstngy virtue and .ne grace i
He plainly tells that we are ito take up our cross o ano
follow Him. There the answer to the mistaken people Mno
that need nothing but faith in Christ conouc
as nothing attaching value to the good works Gods grace en-
ables the cross and carrying the
cross is work, and hard and steady work
May Good Friday Day imprint their vondrous les
sons ndelby upon the hearts and minds of all mankind