Ruminations of an Irascible Hermit.: The perfection of Redemption

Friday, April 14, 2017

The perfection of Redemption

Today as I was at the Good Friday liturgy, the homily was on Jesus' words "Cosummatum est" and how as the suffering servant He completed the task of our Redemption - making it perfect.

The Bible tells us multiple ways in which Jesus redeemed us. By his humility, suffering, setting an example of obedience, his love for us and his bloody sacrifice on the cross. Jesus has opened up the Gates to Heaven for us that we're closed to Adam and Eve. His cross is they key that unlocks our salvation.

The perfection of our Redemption is Jesus purchasing us back from the snares of Satan and sin, breaking the chains of bondage keeping us in death. We have been Redeemed from the Kingdom of darkness and transferred to the kingdom of Light.

Christ has purchased us with His precious blood, better than any gold or silver.

Although today we mystically participate in Jesus death on the Cross as part of the Paschal Mystery, we also know that His death has Redeemed us, healed us, saved us from sin and the power of Satan. Jesus through dying has gone to experience the darkness and abandonment of death, but also to preach to those prisoned in the bosom of Abraham. With the Prophet Job we can proclaim "I know my redeemer lives!!"

Holy God

Holy Mighty One

Holy Immortal One

Have mercy on us

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Please note. I am a Catholic layman, not a qualified theologian or philosopher. What I say and write here are my own personal thoughts and ideas, although I always try to conform my writings to the Magisterium of the Church.

I- with firm faith believe and profess everything that is contained in the symbol of faith: namely,

I believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen. I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in Being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven: By the power of the Holy Spirit, he was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered, died and was buried. On the third day he rose again in fulfillment of the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. I believe in the one holy catholic and apostolic church. I acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

With firm faith I believe as well everything contained in God's word, written or handed down in tradition and proposed by the church--whether in solemn judgment or in the ordinary and universal Magisterium--as divinely revealed and called for faith.

I also firmly accept and hold each and every thing that is proposed by that same church definitively with regard to teaching concerning faith or morals.

What is more, I adhere with religious submission of will and intellect to the teachings which either the Roman pontiff or the college of bishops enunciate when they exercise the authentic Magisterium even if they proclaim those teachings in an act that is not definitive.