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THE BLOOD OF THE GOD-MAN—Two
There is no escaping the fact of our eventual death and judgment according to how we conformed to do God’s will, and these facts are always with us; Our Dear Lord in the Garden, on the Night He was betrayed, the day before He bled all over Jerusalem for our sins of omission and prayed that night, Not My will but Yours be done Father...
This Perfect and Singular Model of the submission to God's will is a sacrifice we can make with Christ's by burying our willfulness into the Holy Ground of God's will. It can be extremely enervating, as Christ proved as with His sweating of blood: Haematidrosis (bloody sweat). Through submission to the will of God, this was Christ's premiere way of His giving completely of both body and soul.
This caused His diaphoresis (Sweat, profuse perspiration) of blood, His sanguineous experience.
This profuse bleeding "occurs when fear is piled upon fear, when an agony of suffering is laid upon an older suffering until the highly sensitized person can no longer sustain the pain.
At that moment, the patient loses consciousness;" but when that does not happen, as with Christ , "the subcutaneous capillaries sometimes dilate so broadly that, when they come into contact with the sweat glands the little capillaries burst. The blood is exuded with the perspiration and, usually, this occurs over the entire body." Imagine, dear reader, the shock this caused Your Dear Savior. Yes, try and imagine it. He was so bereft, it's impossible to think about how He could have cleaned up all of that blood, how horrified He was, after He noticed it.
Was He bleeding to death this way, in Gethsemane, in front of his Apostles? Saint Luke was a physician. he wrote in his Gospel: "And His sweat became as clots of blood, trickling down upon the ground." In my meditations upon the Sorrowful Mysteries, I always imagine this scene with grave intensity.
I have drawn gallons of blood from hundreds of patients. I am a senior technician, a phlebotomist--Phleb-otomy: vein cutter! Is it any wonder that this suffering has made such an impression upon my soul?
For years now, when meditating Christ's Garden sufferings, I have never sustained this fact--it makes me weep sometimes. We cannot imagine its painfulness to Jesus, its shocking embarrassment, its actuality of such deep pain upon pain as quoted above from "The Day Christ Died," by Jim Bishop.
So it was these meditations that made me consider my decision to remain invariant, to not move away; it is our duty to conform to the will of God to adhere and practice the Great commandment, to love our neighbor as ourselves. ... I want to be here for the whole of Lent. ...We must be constantly considerate of all things concerning God's will. As Christ's bloody submission shows: if we love the will of God, we must be willing to suffer anything.
Remember dear reader: Everything about our salvation is bathed and imbued in His Sacred Blood. The blood Christ shed for us in the Garden and on the Cross, and all over the streets of Jerusalem, during his Crowning with thorns and His horrible beating at the pillar and His blood that we worship in the Holy Sacrifice of The Mass.
This Essay is Dedicated to +Bishop Giles Butler, OFM, with Great Love and Reverence
THE BLOOD OF THE GOD-MAN—One
At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: 'If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. For he that will save his life shall lose it : and he that shall lose his life for My sake shall find it. For what doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul? For the Son of man shall come in the glory of His Father with His angels: and then will He render to every man according to his works.' Douay-Rheems Bible, Matthew: 16. 24-27
How are we, as with Saint Francis of Assisi, “...To obtain strength and power in the assiduous meditation on the same Cross of Christ?”
Last week, I wanted to leave, to escape, but was drawn to the inevitable.
I changed my mind. My anger over "my circumstances with others and work" was warranted, I had supposed. But so what--where was I to go?
Why did I reconsider to stay home, and continue on with what I had promised?
Responsibilities are crosses, and there are always others who must come first, despite our fancies of possible flights.
Whom we profess to love, they are dependent upon our constancy, as we are dependent on God's. Carrying crosses requires sacrifice; we must give up --"out wanton tantrums"-- stamping our feet at what displeases us--remove our impediments, and partake in our voyage towards eternity.
This is spiritual maturity and Holy Communion and The Sacrament of Penance are the means that aid us in maintaining this ripeness. Partake of these two Sacraments often during Lent. join us at His altar--you will not be disappointed, you will "ripen" most efficaciously. God comes first.
There is no contentment without acknowledging that; we are forever fighting a war within us, what we want to do, thinking it will bring us peace.
This is the war of illusion, based on two opposing opposites, "our self" admixed with sinful PRIDE, God and HIS WILL. During Lent, we must meditate upon our egomaniacal concerns sacrificing them for a greater duty: those duties we owe God and then our neighbor. And today, since Vatican Two, too many do not want to Love God, Who seeks only your complete satisfaction, if you obey His commandments. We do not want to serve, we are more content to live in sin, and reject love. Are not the hearts of many today cold and Godless, eschewing the Great Traditions and Doctrines for abject materialism, the overt love of the world, the flesh and the Devil? This is a pandemic of rejection. We see this everywhere in the world now: the coldness towards our neighbor and the avarice of hearts.
To many frolic in a play land of illusion, as if eternity does not yawn before all of us, with its affixed promises of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory. To many no longer care for the grace to achieve Heaven. Where are the shepherds and the sheep who follow God today, as when the Church was younger? Almost all are Gone With The Wind and it is tragic.