I have thirst

Peace and Good


Dear readers, we are in the final stretch of Lent, we will not have another week to deepen it, we will not have another Sunday to reflect on the mysteries of our redemption from the perspective of Lent. I hope we have spent time with Jesus walked in Jerusalem and we have been able to find in this way with him and with the brothers and other followers of Jesus. Today we reflect on the words that our Lord goes still hanging on the cross. The Gospel tells us seven words of Jesus on the cross and in fifth place is the following:"I have thirst" (Jn 19, 28)Bring to mind the image of the crucified Jesus, hanging on the cross and soul and body dehydrated. Fix your mind on the cruel scene in which her lips purest He is tasting the bitterness and acidity of vinegar for His thirst offer their executioners. This is perhaps one of the most chilling cries of Christ on the cross: "I have thirst"! This is one of the most aching cries the ardent thirst that Jesus suffered, since the night before or had not drunk a drop of water. Is your anxiety to quench the thirst that produced the bloody ordeal of martyrdom that was enduring. It was certainly a thirsty body which at that time he was suffering, but also a spiritual thirst of longing for the establishment of the Kingdom of his Father here on earth. The agony and sweat of the garden, bad last night, the roads that day had made some and others, very serious pains of being hung on the cross and shedding so much blood in it, all these were causes of having dried entrails consumed virtue and tongue stuck to the palate, as he was written in Psalm 22. Jesus says: "I have thirst," as if he were among friends who want it, give him a snack to quench your thirst hurtful. Thirst unsuspected causes anxiety in the executed, especially when the forces begin to flag, the air seems to be absent, limbs are exhausted and the view is cloudy. With the thirst to be the Savior suffering so great, Jesus suffered and hid until it was to expire, and then said that we might know a little of their suffering. Thirst overwhelmed him more and, last but not least, breathing is becoming slower and the defendant can not stand the dryness you have in your throat and into her mouth. Oh living Stone and Flint fire love! As you are wounded by love to the cross rod, springs, springs, like the stone that smote Moses, a water source that can refresh your afflicted and dry tongue.San Juan knows the book of Psalms, where is the thirst of the patient just giving vinegar to soothe his anxiety (Ps 69, 22) and another passage which shows the dryness of the mouth of the righteous and the tongue sticks to the throat (Ps 22, 16). Although this passage refers to the thirsty, have no contact with the passage vocabulary Johannine (Jn 19, 28-29).It is true that the synoptic evangelists also describe how the soldiers offered Jesus vinegar to drink a sponge attached to a reed (Mt 27, 48, Mark 15, 36, Luke 23, 36), but do not mention the words of Jesus: "I have thirst," but only San Juan is the specifier and draws attention to others. Especially because San Juan underlying the use of Old Testament to proclaim that Christ fulfilled the old messianic promises, thus accentuating the sense of interpreting the Old Testament, Christ, to explain its mystery as divine word.So we connect to other sed: the spiritual thirst. Seeing Jesus had already fulfilled all things to do and all that He had said and announced the prophets, but lacked drinking vinegar. Here we discover three virtues of the Lord: 1 st. Insatiable thirst for obedience, with which he wished to fulfill the will of God until the end. Most loving Jesus, whose delicacy and drink was the will of your Father! Give me this thirst for obedience so fervent, not quench it out where ever, but by the Divine Will of My Father. 2 nd. Insatiable thirst for an endearing desire to suffer for our love. My Redeemer, grant me the grace to have an unwavering thirst pain for my sins and always alive and growing desire to suffer for my brothers, especially by those who least want to convert to Thee. 3 rd. Insatiable thirst for salvation. Jesus and the shedding of his blood pure and your passion to redeem mankind. My redeemer. Sweet Love of my soul. Grant me the grace to offer together with You to the Father for the salvation of mankind. That no person coming in contact with me, whatever the cause is lost! Amen.
Capuchin Friar Paul Missionary
3/28/2012