NOTES for Co1 1:18-24
18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. |
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. |
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? |
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. |
22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: |
23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; |
24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. |
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"We venerate Your Cross, O Christ..." What do these words mean for us? Boundless compassion for the innocent, beaten, naked righteous one hanging on this wood. Love for Him, limitless gratitude. And also the understanding of how infinitely lighter our own cross is. All the problems that seem impossible to carry are nothing compared with the measure of suffering He took upon Himself for our sake. "You, who so loved Your world..."
And there are other words: "Then He says to the disciple, 'Behold your mother.'" On these words the Church is built, the strongest of strongholds. We have all been made sons and daughters, and therefore we can never be orphans. Orphanhood is a word from some other life. We often enter prayerfully into the Passion of Christ, but it is much harder to enter into the passion of Mary. His inconceivable physical pain and her inconceivable pain of soul. The whole world is embraced by this pain.
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