This
is the meaning of the Cross of Christ. This is its power. “God sent his Son into the
world not to condemn the world, but so that through him the world might be
saved” (Io. 3, 17).
The
feast that we celebrate today speaks of a marvelous and ceaseless action of God
in human history, in the history of every man, woman and child. The Cross of
Christ on Golgotha has become for all time the center of this saving work of
God. Christ is the Savior of
the world, because in him and through him the love with which God so loved the
world is continuously
revealed: “God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son” (Ibid.
3, 16).
...The Father gave him so that this Son, who is one in
substance with him, would become man by being conceived of the Virgin Mary.
...The Father gave him so that as the Son of Man he would
proclaim the Gospel, the Good News of salvation.
...The Father gave him so that this Son, by responding with
his own infinite love to the love of the Father, might offer himself on the Cross.
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