The mystery of our new life

Blessed Job, being a figure of the Holy Church, sometimes speaks with the voice of the body, sometimes instead with the voice of the head. And as he speaks of her limbs, he immediately rises to the words of the leader. Therefore also here it is added: This I suffer, and yet there is no violence in my hands and my prayer was pure (cf. Job 16:17).
In fact, Christ suffered the passion and endured the torment of the cross for our redemption, although he had not committed violence with his hands, nor sinned, nor was there deception on his mouth. He alone of all raised his prayer to God, because even in the same torment of passion he prayed for the persecutors, saying: "Father, forgive them, because they do not know what they are doing" (Lk 23:34).
What can we say, what can we imagine more pure than one's merciful intercession in favor of those who make us suffer?
Therefore it happened that the blood of our Redeemer, shed cruelly by the persecutors, was then taken up by them with faith and the Christ was proclaimed by them as the Son of God.
Of this blood, well to the point, it is added: "O earth, do not cover my blood and let my cry not stop". Sinful man was told: You are earth and you will return to earth (cf. Gen 3:19). But the earth did not hide the blood of our Redeemer, because each sinner, assuming the price of his redemption, makes him the object of his faith, his praise and his announcement to others.
The earth did not cover his blood, also because the holy Church has now preached the mystery of his redemption in all parts of the world.
It should be noted, then, what is added: "And may my cry not stop". The same blood of redemption that is assumed is the cry of our Redeemer. Therefore Paul also speaks of "the blood of the sprinkling with a more eloquent voice than that of Abel" (Heb 12:24). Now of Abel's blood it has been said: "The voice of your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground" (Gen 4:10).
But the blood of Jesus is more eloquent than that of Abel, because the blood of Abel demanded the death of the fratricide, while the blood of the Lord impetrated the life of the persecutors.
We must therefore imitate what we receive and preach to others what we venerate, so that the mystery of the Lord's passion is not in vain for us.
If the mouth does not proclaim what the heart believes, its cry is also suffocated. But in order for his cry not to be covered in us, each one, according to his possibilities, must bear witness to the brothers of the mystery of his new life.