Suffering Death Ressurrection

EWTN Global Catholic Radio and St. Joseph Communications proudly present Life is Worth Living with Archbishop Fulton Shin. This 50-part series was recorded on photograph records in the 1960s and the sound quality is sometimes limited. But the word of God spoken by Archbishop Shin is timeless and now here is Archbishop Fulton Shin. Peace be to you. In this lesson we continue the creed which leads together the both of our priorities crossed in this resurrection. We consider in this lesson particularly his sufferings and resurrection. And we begin with the agony of our Lord. Here we are dealing with a great mystery. Our vested large suffered mentally and physically. We touch upon first his mental sufferings and the garlic gets in it. The time was immediately after the last sufferings. There was only one recorded time in the life of our blessed Lord when he sang. And that was after the last sufferings when he went out to his death. He then told us the pastels that they would all be shaken during this hour. Remember that on our door we spoke of his crucifixion in this sufferings. In terms of our is glory in terms of day. He who has its hour God has his day. At the end of that garden in which he had often gone to pray. He told us the pastels that they would be scandalized in him that night because the shepherd would be struck. The new world scandalized indeed. For a short time after the agony they fled. But he told them however when he went in I will go before you in the gallery when I have risen from the dead. Such a promise was never made before that a dead man would keep an appointment with his friends after three days in the tomb. Though the sheep would forsake the shepherd the shepherd would not forsake the sheep. To God and all the heritage is union with God in the garden. So now our blessed Lord, I assure you in our restoration in the garden. Even Angus Henry are two gardens around which we've all the faith of humanity. In Eden Adam sinned. In Gephemeni Christ took humanity sin upon himself. In Eden Adam hid from God. In Gephemeni Christ it was seated with his father. In Eden God sought out Adam in his sin of rebellion. In Gephemeni the new Adam Christ sought out the father in submission and resignation. In Eden the sword was drawn to present entrance into the garden of Eden and thus in our life angle. In Gephemeni our Lord told Peter to she the sword that he had carried. Now there are two elements that are bound up together in the agony. Sin bearing and sinless obedience. He goes far from his apostles about as far the scriptures say as a man patrol his tower. But a curious way to measure distance. Now Lord through himself upon his face say. My father if it be possible let this chalice pass me by only as I really is not as mine. Notice how the two natures of our Lord are involved here. Even the father were one so we did not pray our father if it be possible if this chalice pass. But my God unbroken was the consciousness of his father's love. But on the other hand remember that he's man as well as God. His human nature recalible from death as a penalty for sin. It was very natural for a human nature to shrink from the punishment which sin deserves. So the father who had the cup of passion pass was human. In other words the no were human. The yes to the divine will was the overcoming of human reluctance to suffering for the sake of redemption. Our message Lord now takes upon himself the sins of the world as if he himself were guilty. This is very difficult for us to understand because we always think of physical suffering as a greater evil than moral. Furthermore we become so used to sin we do not realize its horror. The innocent understand sin much better than the sinful. The one thing from which man never learns anything by experience is sin. The siner becomes infected with sin. It becomes so much a part of him that he may even think himself virtuous as the feverish take themselves well at times. He is only the virtuous who stand outside of the current of sin who can look upon evil as a doctor looks upon to these. You understand the full horror of evil. It has also been possible for us to realize how God's help the opposition of human wills to the divine will. I wonder what example we could find to illustrate that. Perhaps the closeness is when a parent feels the strangeness of the power of an obstinate will of one of his children. That child can resist and spurn persuasion, love, hope, and fear of punishment. What a strong power abides in a body so slight in the minds of childy. This is the same picture of men when they have seen willfully. What is seen for the soul but a separate principle of will is done working out his own ends as a thorough no-god. Antichrist is nothing but the full unhindered growth of self-will. That's what our Lord had to face in the garden. The opposition of all human wills to the divine will. So we will be in spirit of the father's will. Our takes the time himself, the iniquities of all the worlds to become a sin but her. And never was the sin committed in the world for which he did not suffer. The sin about him was there. When his behavior of humanity, he lost all the in the herities of God's grace. Clean was there. Purple in the sheet of his brother's blood. The abominations of Sodom and Gomorrah were there. The forgetfulness of his chosen people who fell down before false gods were there. The courseness of pagans who had revolted against the natural yaw. These pagans were there too. All sins were there. Sin committed in the country that made all nature blushed. Sin for the young from whom the tender heart of Christ was pierced. Sin for the old who should have passed the age of sin. Sin committed in the darkness where it was thought the eyes of God could not pierce. Sin committed in the light that made even the wicked shudder. Brought to me, seemed beyond his lips, that he has spoken them. From the north of the south, the east and the west, the south, my eyes, nor the worlds, sin, what is the coming like of flood? Sampson liked. He reaches up and pulls down the whole gills of the world upon himself as if he were guilty. Paying for the death in our name so that we might once more have access to the father. He was so to speak, mentally preparing himself for the great sacrifice, laying upon his sinless soul the sins of a guilty world. I say every sin was there. Your sin was there. And so is mine. Neither they wonder, then, that they began to pour from his body drops of blood. It fell upon the ground like beads forming a rosary of redemption. Sin is in the blood before the remission of sin and blood had to be poured forth. He was guiltless. But he prayed in the suffering of our name. And can you this? Our Lord had to understand even Paul's brethren. Judas to his arms around the neck of our blessed Lord and blistered. His lips with the kiss. Our Lord has now made a buffoon during the night. As he has also cried before two religious judges, Ennis and Cairo. In all our blessed Lord was cried before four judges. Two of them were religious judges. They belonged to the Jews. Two were civil judges. Pious and Herod. Pious was a Roman, a Gentile, and Herod was a Needamite. The judges could not agree unless you be condemned. Your French judges were made in different courts. The religious court-artist's Lord was condemned of blasphemy. The civil court-artist's Lord is condemned of prison. Before the religious judges, he has found to be too religious, too divine, too unworthy. Before the civil judges, he found to be too political, too human, too worthy. The candidate of the pre-ion, why he should be condemned? They can only agree that he should be. Simply because he has to be condemned on contradictory charges. One because he's too divine and the other because he's too human. Where would there be a fitting punishment except the sign of contradiction which is the cross? Let us take a brief scene for each of these trials. The trial before the religious judges. Pious was unable to find any reason why he could condemn our Lord. He introduced false witnesses, but the witnesses could not agree among themselves. Pious finally resulted to a note. He put our message lower to under it. And with all of the sternness that he could must have. And denied by all the contradictions of the witnesses that he had heard. He said to our Lord, I, asurably, die as a living God to tell us whether or not the Christ, the son of God, is the one who is the one who is the living God. Whether or not the Christ, the son of God, or when Caiaphas asked that question, he was the Christ, the son of God. Remember that his mind was not like ours. When you were not here to work Christ, we go back to us earthly life. Not Caiaphas. Caiaphas was going back to our prophecies. He was going back to the book of Genesis. He knew how to Messiah for then for a whole. Before the question was, was he the Messiah? Was he the son of God? Was he clad with divine power? Was he the word made flesh? Was he who the God, with Henry Times and the diverse manners, spoke to us through the prophets. And these last days were speaking through him the son. So he asked our power, the son of God. Now we're on the road. I am. With sublime consciousness and majestic dignity, he announced that he was the Messiah from the son of the living God. And when he said, I am, I'm sure that Caiaphas remembered. That when God spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, those were the you words that God used of himself. I am. Who am? Our Lord now speaks to Caiaphas again and says, for over I tell you this, you will see the son of Man again when he has seated at the right hand of God's power and comes on the clouds of heaven. Notice our blessed Lord affirmed his divinity, then his humanity, and both under the personal pronoun, Ali. He is telling Caiaphas that someday he will be judged. Caiaphas now finds our blessed Lord, you see, he rends his garments, does it token that the fact that he had heard drowsiness because Christ was making himself God. But Caiaphas, the Sanadrin and the people could not have been able to see him. People could not put our blessed Lord to death, that power belonged to the Romans. And so they hustle, our blessed Lord is the prison of the pilot. He has several trials before a pilot, and pilot sends him off to Herod. But it is interesting to note the chart that is not before a pilot against our blessed Lord. In the trial of any ordinary human being, there is a continuity of charges. Our blessed Lord was found guilty of blasphemy. Now when the prisoner is brought to a higher court, you would think that he would still be condemned to blasphemy. But he is not. Why not? Well, because if Caiaphas and his friends turned pilot, and all the fatigued men made him stop, God pited wouldn't laugh at them. Pited was a pagan, he would say, I have my gods, you old yours. I speak an incense before mine every morning. They therefore had to find some other charge. Now the chargers, they would bring against our blessed Lord, would be treason. He would be too political, he would be too Roman. He would be too early. He must be remembered too with the Caiaphas, and the Spanish were in hatred of Romans. The Romans had conquered their country. Roman judges were seated in judgment. Roman kings within our pockets. Caesar's land was under the city of Jerusalem. Nor through the land that was holy. They cheated the invaders. They hated Rome. Now when they bring our blessed Lord, we thought highly that we asked what charge that they bring against the man. They thought that their townium here, we are preventing the nation, they accuse things of getting free to Caesar. Your Majesty, refusing to give tribute to Caesar. Caesar whom they hated, pilot you, that they did not love Caesar, but in order to win their release. After many incidents in the trial, they finally said to him, thou art no friend of Caesar, it's thou thou art brilliant him. The man who pretends to be a king, is Caesar's rival. Tired it was afraid of being reported to Rome, but without hearing a student win. Were they unseated? The pilot tried to save our order. He had called our order in us in seven times. Now his court is our blessed Lord. Bring them out before the people and test how we are killed. To not be against that man of our value, he had a came alive of voices saying, we have no king but Caesar. And pilot gave up Jesus into their hands to be crucified. Our Lord is now dead to Calorie. Once on those heights, the offers his hands to his exitutioners, the hands from which the werehose graces flow. First the down knock of the hammer is heard in silence. Mary and John hold their ears, the sound is uninjurable. The echo sound it is in her stroke. Then the cross is lifted slowly off the ground. Then with the tub that seemed to shake even hell itself, it sank into the pit prepared for it. Our Lord has mounted his pulpit for the last time. He spoke seven words. As to say seven times. We cannot give you the seven words. For one of time, the first word of our blessed Lord was, for all who had crucified and all who had brought him to death. Father, forgive him. They know not what they do. It is not wisdom that saves. It is ignorance. And then after hanging three hours on the cross, our Blessed Lord now prepares to surrender his life. In memory, he had often said, no man takes my life away from me. I lay it down of myself. It is to be noted therefore that when our Blessed Lord came to the seventh word, the scriptures say that he spoke those words in our voice. To show that he was the master of his own life. Just as planets only after all wrong period of time, complete all our bits and then come back to the starting point as if this was a little hidden who sent them all away. So now he with the taboo of sun left the father's house, wasted his life and his blood for our sake, his propellant had all come and he left all upon his wits the perfect prayer. Father, into thy hands, I command my spirit. There is a rupture of a heart, through a rupture of love. He bows his head. And dies. Nicodemus and Joseph's varimathea come to take him down from the cross, and bow on him in a hundred pounds of spices. And it is interesting what scripture says. In the same quarter where he was crucified, there was a garden. The word garden is that eaten in the fall of man, as it all was suggested through its flowers in the springtime, the resurrection from the dead. In that garden was a tomb in which, in the language of scripture, no man had ever been buried. Born of a virgin womb, he is buried in a virgin tomb. And this crusher said, and Joseph did be trough them both. Nothing seems now repellent and to have a crucifixion in the garden. And yet there would be compensation for the garden with habit resurrection. He was born in a stranger's cave, and so he is buried in a stranger's grave, because human birth and human death are equally foreign to him. Dying for others, he has placed him in another's grave. His grave was borrowed, bow out for him, and he would give it back on Easter as he gave back the beast, but he rode on palm Sunday. When he said the Lord had me to eat. When he rose in the dead, he made many appearances as we have already said. And one of the appearances of the resurrection, for which we did not give many details. Was a week after, all of the other apostles had seen our bested Lord, they had become convinced, but only after much evidence, and after much doubting, and our bested Lord comes into the upper room, and thus peace be to you. Now Thomas had refused to believe, Thomas one of the apostles, he said, I will not believe until I have seen the mark of nails all year times. Until I have put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into a fight, you will never make me believe. Now our bested Lord appears. He speaks to Thomas. Let me have thy finger. See? Here are my hands. Let me have thy hand. Put it into my sight, seep thy doubting, and believe, and throwing himself on his knees, he fed the risen Savior, thou art my Lord, and my God. Oh, there are some who will never believe even when I see. Thomas thought that he was doing the right thing, and demanding the full evidence of sensible proof. But what would become of future generations, if the same evidence was to be demanded by them? Suppose he was not believed in resurrection, until you put your finger into his hand and hand him into his hide. The future believers are already implied, but they accept the pastor of the resurrection from those who are in with him. I lost a picture of the face of the believers after the apostolic age. When you would be known you would have seen it, but that takes without a foundation, because the apostles themselves had seen the risen Christ. How do we know what a resurrection? Can we be called the church was there? The church was down in the apostles. They saw a resurrection. Thomas was there, the daughter, Thomas believed, he believed in the name of our but could not see sensibly, but could accept the testimony of ours when Christ set out to preach the gospel of resurrection to our nation. God, God, God. This has been Life is Worth Living with Archbishop Fulton Sheen. For more information about this series, contact St. Joseph Communications at 1-800-526-2151. Outside the U.S., call 818-3313-3549. 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