Meditation for March 29, Saturday after Easter

Life in Christ

We lost divine love by the sin of Adam and Eve. The Word of God will come to restore it to us; that is the whole purpose of the Incarnation.

But the Word Incarnate will not only become one of us, a human being like ourselves, but He will also make each member of the human family a living continuation of Himself. Christ will be first and foremost Jesus, in the singular, Jesus, the Son of Mary and Child of the Father, the character of history who lived in Palestine; but Christ will also be this character in the plural, composed of the historical Jesus, described in the Gospels, plus all those whom He has deigned to make His members in the unity of His Mystical Body. That is to say, all of us - each and everyone of us.

When God looks upon us, He sees us united to His Son, and one with Him as the branch is joined to the vine to which it is grafted. God knows not only His Son, but also all those who form an integral and constituent part of His Son. God sees me in Jesus.

The Jesuit Saint-Jure said: "In all the universe, God the Father loves with the true love of friendship only Jesus Christ. That is why St. Paul calls Him the Son of His love and complacence, so that, as the same Apostle says, He makes us pleasing to His eyes, in Him and through Him. He finds us all beautiful and radiant with glory when we are united to Him, since this union commu­nicates to His beauty and glory."

"O Jesus, let me understand this beautiful doctrine which is the very foundation of Christianity, that I may know that every Christian is a living member of Christ. I wish both to be dominated by it and to live by it."

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Adapted from Meditations for Religious
by Father Raoul Plus, S.J. (© 1939, Frederick Pustet Co.)