Today’s Proclamation of the Passion was from the Gospel
of Mark. This is the Gospel that often presents crowds of people pressing on
Jesus to be healed[1]. Jesus heals many people in this Gospel,
but he then he directs them, tell no one
about this. Jesus silences
devils that call out from the possessed that they know who He is. Why? Why the secrecy?
Why does Mark present what scripture scholars would call, the Messianic
Secret? The message behind the secret is that no one can understand the
healings or the Messiah until they understand the cross. Jesus accepts the
cross in obedience to the Father, opposite of Adam’s disobedience. He accepts the cross to defeat the
power of hatred and death through sacrificial love. When the centurion looked
up and saw the love flowing from the man whose crucifixion he had supervised,
he was the first to proclaim, Truly, this
is the Son of God.
My brother, my sister, it is only from the perspective
of the cross, of sacrificial love, that we can understand the wonders of the
Lord. Viewed from the cross, there
is no longer a secret as to who Jesus is.
Nor should who we are be a secret. We are Christians.
We are called to love as Jesus loved.
We are called to sacrificial
love. The world needs to see
us emptying ourselves in obedience to God. The world needs to experience His Love flowing through us.
We wear crosses around our necks. This is more than
jewelry. Nor do we wear crosses only to remind us of the event that took place
on Golgotha two thousand years ago.
We wear crosses to remind us to proclaim with our lives that the Love of
God is not a secret ■
[1]
Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion, March 29, 2015. At the Procession with
Palms: Mark 11:1-10 or John 12:12-16. Readings: Isaiah 50:4-7; Psalm 22:8-9,
17-18, 19-20, 23-24; Philippians 2:6-11. Mark 14:1-15:47
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