GETHSEMANE:
Who was it said that ‘Yes’?-
‘Not my will but yours be done!‘?
A man, a truly man,
a truly God within
the Trinity.
A God said human Yes
to God,-
A man who took us to himself,
one flesh with us,
one body now with him,-
When He said Yes, We said it too
with him;
we did not know it,
but we know it now.
Will I now say what once I said in Him?
This Man, this God,
this Me that now I am
in Him-
together, now all one, we
kneel on self-same ground and say
that self-same Yes
IN HIM.’
(Reflection on Cantalamessa ‘The Mystery of Easter’ re Gethsemane: Who is this who obeys?)
Seamus Devitt C.Ss.R. (from www.emptifulvessels.com)
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