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Building Peace through the Blood of Christ

 

 

The adoration of the blood of Christ ought to encourage the person to be a peace-maker: to construct peace.  Nicholas Cabasilas, the expert in Byzantine liturgy, a great spiritual person, in his work, "The Life of Christ", has written:

 

Peace is so precious that God came into the world to buy it for humanity: he who is rich and Lord of all things, did not find anything else worthy of such goodness, but he paid for it by pouring out his blood.  In fact among all things that had come into being, he did not find anything else to be of greater value than that of peace and reconciliation, a peace and reconciliation that he searched for, and of which he made a new creation, i.e.: his own blood.  And hardly having poured it out, he immediately became a reconciler and prince of peace.  Therefore to conduct well their own lives the adorers of that blood should not attribute any greater duty than that of being builders of reconciliation and of peace among humanity.

 

The adorers of the blood of Christ ought necessarily to be builders of reconciliation and peace among human beings.  Reconciliation and peace in small and large communities, in the Province, in the Congregation.  To think of being a reconcilor and artisan of peace only for those they encounter outside the community, while inside there exists division, brokenness, disharmony, and conflicts, is a contradiction and a counter-witness.

 

This work of peace is made easy by the fact that the blood of Christ is a new creation and that the blood is the only precious value proportionate to that of peace.  An authentic adoration of the blood of Christ leads one necessarily to build peace, because thanks to the blood of Jesus, one brings about the bonding between the person and other human beings.

 

(D. Romano Altobelli, C.PP.S., "The Adorers of the Blood of Christ as Peace-Builders")


REFLECTION

  1. How does my adoration of the blood of Christ lead me to be a "reconciler and artisan of peace"?
  2. What personal obstacles prevent me from being reconciler and peace builder among those with whom I live?
  3. What one thing can I do today to build reconciliation and peace?

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