The Effortlessness of Creation and the Effort of Redemption

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On this Low Sunday, we continue to recognize the great victory of our Lord over sin, death, and the devil with His miraculous physical resurrection from the dead. The New Adam ushered in a new creation in being born from the womb of the tomb on Easter Sunday. But the bringing about of this 8th Day…this Lord’s Day…this eternal day…this Haec Dies…this is the Day that the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad in it…this day was unlike those first six days of creation followed by the day of rest. You see, it is one of the glories of the act of Creation, that there is no real effort involved. It’s not as if the good Lord had to exert Himself in those first days of creation. He didn’t need to deliberate about it. He simply spoke and it was made from nothing effortlessly. But the re-creation…the redemption of man…the work of conversion, on the contrary, was filled with blood, sweat, tears, and untold effort…even agony. The great Oratorian, Fr. Frederick Faber, had this to say: Consider the Precious Blood working its way out of our Blessed Lord’s Body in the sweat of Gethsemane, the slow, painful oozings from the Crown of thorns, the rude violence of the sprinkling at the Scourging, the distillation of the Blood along the streets of Jerusalem and up the slope of Calvary, the soaking of his clinging raiment, the four wells dug by the cruel nails ebbing and flowing with the pulses of his feeble life, the violation of the silent sanctuary of his Dead Heart, to seek for the few drops of that precious treasure that might be left, all these are parts of the effort of Conversion. Conversion…not just for the sons of Adam in general, but for each individual human person requires untold effort. The work of those first days of creation certainly exhibits an infinite and effortless power in that the good Lord made things out of nothing. Yet it is the hard work of redemption, with all the efforts of Christ and His Sorrowful Mother, that accomplished the most. For more please visit http://reginaprophetarum.org & remember to say 3 Hail Marys for the priest ***Donations to Sensus Fidelium is 501(c)3 tax deductible*** 🙏🏻PLEASE HELP OUR CHANNEL GROW 🙏🏻 ▶️ 1. Become a Channel Patron: https://www.patreon.com/SensusFidelium ▶️ 2. Visit the website https://www.sensusfidelium.us for Gueranger, Saint of the Day, Apologetics, Meditation by the Saints, Scripture Study and more. ▶️ 3. BitChute --- https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Sensus_Fidelium/ ▶️ 4. Paypal, Bitcoin, Anedot, Stripe, Square & PO Box donations - https://sensusfidelium.us/donate-support/ ▶️ 5. YouTube: Click Subscribe, then Click "Notification Bell" = 🔔 Please "Like" our videos so that Youtube shares it to others by clicking the "Like" thumbs-up under the video = 👍🏻 ▶️ 6. Please share this video 📲, and help others find Christ inside the Catholic Church! Please share this video on Facebook and Twitter using the share button. ▶️ 7. Follow on Social Media: 🔴 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SensusFidelium/ 🔴 Sensus Fidelium Twitter: https://https://twitter.com/Sensus_Fidelium 🔴 YouTube: Click Subscribe, then Click "Notification Bell" = 🔔

Topics

• Salvation
• God the Father