The confusion and the uneasiness of the religious leaders is growing more and more as they encounter the "Lamb of God" who will soon take away the sins of the world.
It is the truth and goodness and directness that Jesus is that unsettles them. Since the time of Adam what is obscure and of darkness does not like to be in the presence of what is clear and light! And so, those living in the shadows try to exterminate what is true and good and direct!
Until now, the obscure and the dark had the upper hand, but this is precisely why Jesus came into the world – to dispel the confusion, to eradicate the darkness by his very presence as TRUTH and LIFE and LIGHT!
The time is soon approaching for Jesus to go through with what he wants to go through in order to bring about this transformation. Jesus moves eagerly toward it! He is not looking forward to the extreme physical brutality that he knows awaits him, but he is looking forward to what he knows lays beyond it – a newness of life for himself in his humanness and for all of us.
Jeremiah, in the first reading today, felt himself to be like a lamb led to the slaughter! But he also knew that God (the Father) would bring about something very good because of it!
May we assure Jesus that we are with him in spirit as he – the true Lamb of God – is led to the slaughter. Let us unite all of our lives, all of our hopes, all of our sins to his Passion and death, and so trust that they will be transformed by the only force that could transform them: the love of the God-Man for us. O Lord, my God, in you I take refuge!
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