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There is a poem where God the Father and God the Son are having a conversation.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy Son,\u201d states God the Father, \u201cI wish to give you a bride who will love you. \u00a0Because of you she will deserve to share our company and eat at our table.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Son replies, \u201cI am very grateful. \u00a0I will show my brightness to the bride you give me, so that by it she may see how great my Father is. \u00a0I will hold her in my arms and she will burn with your love, and with eternal delight she will exalt your goodness\u201d.<\/p>\n
After God the Son accepts the Father\u2019s proposal to give him a bride, God the Father creates the universe, \u201cLet it be done, then, said the Father, for your love has deserved it. \u00a0And by these words the world was created.\u201d<\/p>\n
The great Spanish mystic Saint John of the Cross presents the whole creation as the bride of Jesus Christ. \u00a0The bride Jesus Christ has always loved from the beginning of time, the bride for which he willingly gave up his life, in order to make her new.<\/p>\n
Jesus Christ comes to us as a groom to his bride, full of a passion and love that transform us, he comes willing to give of himself without measure, willing to fulfill us and to satisfy us.<\/p>\n
\u201cBehold, I make all things new\u201d proclaims the one sitting on the throne in the Apocalypse of Saint John as he looks at the new heavens and the new earth. \u00a0This is Jesus looking at his bride, all of creation, and making all things in her new by restoring her to grace by offering her salvation.<\/p>\n
Behold, I make all things new, proclaims Jesus Christ has he hangs from the cross and gazes upon his mother. \u00a0Being the first one to receive the salvation of Christ, he sees in the Virgin the wondrous result of his work of salvation. \u00a0As he looks into her eyes, he sees the crowning of his efforts; in her eyes he sees the whole of humanity made new.<\/p>\n
Behold, I make all things new, proclaims Jesus Christ as the stone rolls away from the entrance of the tomb. \u00a0Having vanquished and transformed death by his own dying and remaining in the tomb for three days, Jesus forever makes new our relationship with death, humanity\u2019s ancient foe.<\/p>\n
Behold, I make all things new, proclaims Jesus Christ every time bread and wine are transformed into his precious body and blood. \u00a0As the Word created the universe out of nothing, separated water from land and the earth from the skies, the Word of God transforms creation itself, simple bread and wine, into his very self in order to make true His words, \u201cGod\u2019s dwelling is with the human race.\u201d<\/p>\n
Behold, I make all things new, proclaimed Jesus Christ on the day of our baptism, which is the day we received the forgiveness of our sins and became part of the church, the day we became part of the Bride of Christ.<\/p>\n
Behold, I make all things new, proclaims Jesus Christ every time we receive the forgiveness of our sins through absolution in the sacrament of reconciliation. \u00a0As when God said \u201clet there be light\u201d and there was light, when God says \u201cI absolve you from your sins\u201d our sins are forgiven. \u00a0We are made new by the grace of God.<\/p>\n
The whole creation prepares as a bride to meet the bridegroom. \u00a0As a bride anxiously processes down the aisle towards the groom, we too are in a procession or pilgrimage towards Jesus the bridegroom. \u00a0As the eyes of the bride are fixed on the eyes of the groom, we too must keep our eyes fixed on Christ the bridegroom.<\/p>\n
Though unworthy, the bridegroom himself makes us worthy by washing us in his sacred blood. \u00a0It is the love of the groom for his bride that transforms her. \u00a0It is the love of Christ that transforms us from sinners into children of God. Christ glorifies us in the love of God the Father and we are able to burn with the love of God and exalt in his goodness.<\/p>\n
May Christ help us accept this great love and share it with others to make all things new. \u00a0We are to love as he loves us \u2013 may he grant us the grace to do so.<\/p>\n
[Picture: \u201cThe Trinity\u201d at the Church of the Gesu, Rome]<\/p>\n
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