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If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.                If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.                If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.                Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with.               
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Who was Responsible for Christ’s Passion and Death?
   

By Father Mieczysław Piotrowski TChr,
Love One Another! 3/2004 → The main topic

Love One Another



Historic persons such as Caiaphas, Pilate, Judas and others bear direct responsibility for the passion and death of Jesus. However, they acted on behalf of all sinners who hate God — those who, enslaved by Satan, are plunged in the darkness of sin and death.

 

We cannot excuse the direct agents of Jesus’ death, or absolve them of responsibility, but we must remember that each of us, by sinning, is party to His death.
All of humanity, every one of us, is responsible for this most heinous of crimes: condemning our Savior to death. The sadistic cruelty of Jesus’ torturers and killers, which Gibson so graphically portrays in The Passion of the Christ, reflects the cruelty of our own sins. It is a reflection of the way we, people of the 21st Century, treat God. In the attitudes of Caiaphas, Pilate, Judas and the members of the mob, who shout “Crucify him!”, we can see the sins and the tendency to sin of all of us. All this stems from a false image of God, from our listening to Satan, who would have us reverse the polarity of good and evil, and call good evil and evil good. Judas, Pilate, Caiaphas, and the Roman soldiers represent all of us in our moral indifference, our selfishness and rejection of what God constantly tells us, namely, that the one thing that can make us truly happy is God’s love. Our part in the crime of deicide expresses itself in our living life as though God did not exist, in our constant rejection of the gift of divine mercy. All of this bears fruit in the diversity of our personal sins.
With all its suggestive power, Gibson’s film brings home to us the fundamental truth of Christianity, namely, that in sinning every one of us condemns God to suffering and death, to non-existence in our lives.
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The above article was published with permission from Miłujcie się! in November 2010


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