Episode 288 - Because He Loves Us - And We Him
XVI Sunday after Pentecost
Lorica · Fr. Patrick Cardine
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Show Notes
He did not heal in secret. He waited until their eyes were fixed on him — hostile, watching — and then he opened himself, wounded himself, for love. The Lord of the Sabbath entered the lion’s den not with vengeance, but with vulnerability, because even his accusers were beloved.
This is not a tale of moral instruction. It is the revelation of Christ — meek, majestic, descending to the lowest place. The Psalms speak with his voice. The parables are shaped by his descent. Even our own lives only take on meaning in the light of his — our grief, our birth, our prayers: they are his first.
We fast, we pray, we serve — not for reward, not even for virtue — but because we want to be like Jesus. Because we love Him. And that is enough.