My and Thine: Pope Reflects on Drama of Redemption

The Holy Father asked what this “my” and “your” consist of.

The “my” — the human will — is to avoid death, to be “spared this chalice of suffering: It is the human will, of human nature, and Christ feels, with all the consciousness of his being, life, the abyss of death, the terror of nothingness, this menace of suffering.”

In fact, the Pontiff added, Christ feels more than us the “abyss of evil.”

And, he said, “He also felt, with death, all the suffering of humanity. He felt that all this was the chalice he must drink, that he must make himself drink, accept the evil of the world, everything that is terrible, the aversion to God, the whole of sin. And we can understand that Jesus, with his human soul, was terrified before this reality, which he perceived in all its cruelty.”

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