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Notebook 100 True Life in God 1029
Today again, is the day when
innocent Blood was shed for my sake,
and while Satan is spitting out his venom
on Your Holy Name,
I come to You, to console You
and adore You;
ah, Lamb of God, you have not
overthrown your scourgers,
nor ordered them to lay the scourge aside,
You have not opened Your Mouth
to plead: “I am worn out
with the blows you deal me;”
but remained silent
towards Your tormentors;
because Your Heart was
smouldering with Passion;
You remained silent, You remained silent
so as not to aggravate Your Angels,
already distressed;
My friends and My companions shrank
away from My Wounds and even the
dearest ones kept their distance .... they
had abandoned Me .... even to steady My
step and keep Me from falling, while I
was carrying My Cross, they were not
there; My Heart was throbbing and My
strength deserting Me; the light of My
Eyes diminishing, while violent men
were attacking Me, ranting in their
speech with swords on their lips, My
Heart writhed within Me; I could have
asked the Angels to give Me wings like a
dove, to fly away and find rest, and find
a refuge from the storm of abuse, but I
had answered when My Father called
Me;
Your Father heard Your plea
and ransomed You
and gave You His Peace,
from the feud against You;
Lying witnesses had taken their stand,
yet You wept
when they were sick and dying;
like someone mourning his mother,
You wept for them;
Shame and dishonour
was not of Your concern, facing the Cross;
but in the face of Your tormentors,
You cried out once more to the Father;
“Eli, Eli, Lama sabachthani?”
but the Father’s attention was turned on us,
and saw all the human race,
and pitied us ...
so once more Your Father
denied what Your lips were entreating Him
as He had denied
Your supplication in Gethsemane;
Yahweh had leaned down from the
heights of His Sanctuary and looking
down on the earth, He heard the sighing
of the captive and to set free those
doomed to die, He
sacrificed His only Begotten Son ....
yes, indeed, My Father gave Me to all of
you as a gift for your redemption with
My entire Will too;
Yet, Holy One,
You who are one in the Father
and the Father is one in You,
You, for my sake,
preferred to become on the Cross,
the scorn of the men
who surrounded You and the jest
of Your people;
I AKRA TAPINOSI1
“let Yahweh save Him,” they said, “if
Yahweh is His friend let Him rescue
Him!” but I heard nothing, as though I
were deaf, as though dumb, saying not a
word; I was like the one who, hearing
nothing, has no sharp answer to make;
My strength was trickling away from Me,
the light had gone away from My Eyes;
Ah Lord, when we stumble,
Your Powerful Hand is there to save us,
but, You, on the way to the Crucifixion,
when You stumbled,
1 Greek: the ultimate humility.
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