Pills of Faith January 24 "threw themselves on to touch him"

Follow the example of our Savior who wanted to undergo the Passion to learn compassion, submit to poverty to understand the poor. Just as he "learned obedience from the things he suffered" (Heb 5,8: 1), so he wanted to 'learn' mercy ... Perhaps it will seem strange to you what I just said about Jesus: he who is the wisdom of God (1,24 Cor XNUMX:XNUMX ), what could he learn? ...

You recognize that he is God and man in one person. As an eternal God, he has always had knowledge of everything; as a man, born over time, he has learned many things over time. Beginning to be in our flesh, he also began to experience the miseries of the flesh from experience. It would have been better and wiser for our forefathers not to have had this experience, but their creator "came to seek what was lost" (Lk 19,10:XNUMX). He took pity on his work and came to find it, descending with his mercy where she had fallen miserably ...

It was not only to share their misfortune, but to free them after suffering their own pains: to become merciful, not as a God in his eternal beatitude, but as a man who shares the situation of men ... Wonderful logic of love! How could we have known God's admirable compassion if she had not been interested in existing misery? How could we have understood the compassion of God if it had remained humanly alien to suffering? ... Therefore, Christ united man's mercy, without changing it, but multiplying it, as it is written: "Men and beasts you save, Lord. How abundant is your mercy, O God! " (Ps 35, 7-8 Vulg).