RETREAT IN LENT 2021
Day 43,
Wednesday, 31 March
‘I made no resistance’
Explicit in today’s Servant Song from Isaiah 50:4-9
are these words. ‘I made no resistance. And it is true, at no point in the
passion do we find Jesus protesting or resisting. He submits himself knowing
that from the human power point of view he cannot resist but, much more
importantly, from the divine mission he is given he has to submit. This is the
only way, when you think about it, he can save the world. He has to go through
what his sisters and brothers go through. That is what the Incarnation, the
‘dwelling among us’ means.
Then there is that awful fulfilment of what has been hinted
at for some time; the betrayal of Judas (Matt 26:14-25). How the
centuries have loved to hate Judas and lay on him so much guilt and blame,
without pausing to reflect how much we all share in one way or another in that betrayal,
starting with Peter. True, his betrayal was brutal and clear. Ours is more
subtle and hidden.
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