Betrayal, denial and abandonment TABLETS OF STONE Larry Faraon, OP 04/17/2011

Betrayal, denial and abandonment

TABLETS OF STONE

Larry Faraon, OP

04/17/2011
Betrayal, denial and abandonment — seem to be sound bites of crass politics, so characteristic of our own. We are referring, however, to the circling events of the Holy Week that commences today with the Palm Sunday celebrations. Jesus Christ enters triumphantly into the walled city of Jerusalem, where he was met with cheers from the palm waving crowd of “Hosannahs,” the same crowd who would later betray, deny and abandon him by crying in jeers, “Crucify him!” in front of Roman governor, Pontius Pilate.

But never mind that, the Messiah must have ignored such ignominy and perhaps even expected such, since the crowd was never his own. Neither did he really belong entirely to them. Except for some instances of mutuality that led him to a few popular miracles, such as healings, and exorcisms coupled with evangelistic attempts to bring these “antiquated” religious buffs into the threshold of a new spiritual dispensation, he never considered himself an intimate. Hence, the pain of betrayal, denial and abandonment from these vacillating hordes didn’t hurt much, not that much..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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