{"id":602,"date":"2012-04-06T06:43:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T11:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kathrynlopez\/?p=602"},"modified":"2012-04-06T06:57:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T11:57:28","slug":"about-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kathrynlopez\/2012\/04\/about-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"About Last Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

And for every night, morning, noon, and moment:<\/p>\n

Jesus struggles with the Father. He struggles with himself. And he struggles for us. He experiences anguish before the power of death. First and foremost this is simply the dread natural to every living creature in the face of death. In Jesus, however, something more is at work. His gaze peers deeper, into the nights of evil. He sees the filthy flood of all the lies and all the disgrace which he will encounter in that chalice from which he must drink. His is the dread of one who is completely pure and holy as he sees the entire flood of this world\u2019s evil bursting upon him. He also sees me, and he prays for me. This moment of Jesus\u2019 mortal anguish is thus an essential part of the process of redemption. Consequently, the Letter to the Hebrews describes the struggle of Jesus on the Mount of Olives as a priestly event. In this prayer of Jesus, pervaded by mortal anguish, the Lord performs the office of a priest: he takes upon himself the sins of humanity, of us all, and he brings us before the Father.<\/p>\n

Lastly, we must also pay attention to the content of Jesus\u2019 prayer on the Mount of Olives. Jesus says: \u201cFather, for you all things are possible; remove this cup from me; yet not what I want, but what you want\u201d (Mk 14:36). The natural will of the man Jesus recoils in fear before the enormity of the matter. He asks to be spared. Yet as the Son, he places this human will into the Father\u2019s will: not I, but you. In this way he transformed the stance of Adam, the primordial human sin, and thus heals humanity. The stance of Adam was: not what you, O God, have desired; rather, I myself want to be a god. This pride is the real essence of sin. We think we are free and truly ourselves only if we follow our own will. God appears as the opposite of our freedom. We need to be free of him \u2013 so we think \u2013 and only then will we be free. This is the fundamental rebellion present throughout history and the fundamental lie which perverts life.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Pope Benedict, at the Mass of the Lord\u2019s Supper on Holy Thursday 2012<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Goodness. Holy Thursday 2012 has come and gone already! Have we asked the Lord to transform our will? What are we waiting for?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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