Until
sunlight hits raindrops at the right angle the drops are translucent. A simple
fact.
Once
sunlight hits them at the right angle we marvel at the beauty of rainbows.
Another
simple fact.
Why then do
seemingly so many human beings fail to embrace the simple fact pigmentation is
ONLY skin deep?
Within the
external covering is the same red blood and the simple fact is that within the
depth of our humanity each and every one of us IS the same colour.
Racism is a
choice to be ensnared in prejudice, hatred, willful blindness as refusal to see
other as one like myself.
No one can
claim to be a true Christian or Jew or Muslim, for example, if our hearts are
cesspools of hate towards another human being, for to hate my brother or sister
is to choose to hate God Himself who sent His only begotten Son as one like us
to shed His Blood for us, to redeem us, commanding us to love one another as He
loves us.
The Dallas
snipers, the Orlando terrorist, the 9/11 terrorists, the Ottawa
shooter/terrorist, those around the world such as ISIS and Boko Haram, are
willfully blind haters.
When they appear before the awesome judgment
seat of God He will hear the voice of their brothers’ blood crying out from the
earth. [cf. Gn. 4: 10,11]
The blood
of every human being whether murdered by abortion, by gun, by bomb, one on one
or in the darkness of concentration camps is the blood of God become man, Jesus
Christ: is the blood of each one of us.
Soaking the
earth over the millennia with the blood of our brothers and sisters we human
beings would go insane from the unremitting screaming of the oceans of blood
which have, which do, saturate the earth and unless a greater soaking had/does
occur, only the crying of their blood would/will be heard by our heavenly
Father.
We would be
forever imprisoned in our sin, forever without hope and this earthly existence
would be cruel, pointless, devoid of hope, remaining forever unredeemed.
“As I
passed by I saw you in your blood. So I said to you, ‘Let there be life out of
your blood…’” [Ez. 16:6]
Who passed
by?
The same
who said/says: “…..make haste, come down, for today I must stay at your house.”
[Lk. 19:5] and “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice
and opens the door, I will come into him and dine with him and he with Me.”
[Rv. 3:20] and “This is My Blood of the new covenant which is shed for many”
[Mk. 14:24] and it is said of Him: “And being in agony, He prayed more
earnestly. Then His sweat became as great drops of blood falling down to the
ground.” [Lk. 22:44] and “….one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear
and immediately blood and water came out.” [Jn. 19:34]
It is Jesus
who passing by sees us writhing in our blood, up in the tree of our own pride,
fears, sins, who knocks constantly at the door of our being that we might allow
Him to enter and cleanse our hearts of all hatred and violence, who offers His
own life-giving Blood to us in the Holy eucharist that mingled with our own His
Blood might dominate our beings that we would love one another as He loves us
from whom the earnestness and intensity of His agonizing prayer for us causes
His blood to fall to the ground, also falling from His pierced side.
His Blood
seeps into the earth and mutes the cries of all the blood shed since Cain until
the end of time from a cry for justice into His cry for mercy from the Father
upon us, for forgiveness and the chance in each of our lives, in our communal
life on this earth in each moment in Him to begin again.
His Blood
cries hope, mercy, redemption.
St. John
XXII in an Apostolic Letter from 1960 on devotion to, and confidence in, the
Most Precious Blood of Jesus reminds us that: “Unlimited is the effectiveness
of the God-Man’s Blood – just as unlimited as the love that impelled Him to
pour it out for us….”
Hatred
breeds violence, the violent hatefully shed blood.
Love
engenders understanding, compassion, clear eyes which, like raindrops kissed by
the sun see the beauty of diversity knowing the essence of each raindrop is the
same one to another.
IF we allow
the light of Christ, Christ Himself who shed His Blood for us, to illuminate
our souls, hearts, conscience, thoughts, then we shall see each other as He and
the Father sees us and we shall love one another.
From the
litany of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus:
Blood of
Christ poured out on the Cross….price of our salvation….stream of mercy…victor
over demons…help of those in peril…relief of the burdened…solace in
sorrow….consolation of the dying….peace and tenderness of hearts….SAVE US!