THE REAL MEANING OF THE SEVEN LAST WORDS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

 

THE REAL MEANING OF THE SEVEN LAST WORDS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

(as revealed to Ven. Mary Agreda of Spain from the book The Mystical City of God )

1 - "FATHER, forgive them, for they know not what they do..."

This principle of charity and fraternal love , the DIVINE Teacher had appropriated to Himself and proclaimed by His own lips( Jn15:12 - Matt 15:44 )

He now confirmed and executed it upon the Cross, not only pardoning and loving his enemies, but EXCUSING those under the plea of ignorance whose malice had reached the highest point possible to men in persecuting, blaspheming and crucifying their GOD and REDEEMER. Such was the difference between the behaviour of ungrateful men favoured with so great enlightenment, instruction and blessing; and the behavior of Jesus in His most burning charity while suffering the crown of thorns, the nails and the Cross and unheard of BLASPHEMY at the hands of men.

2 - "AMEN, I SAY TO THEE, THIS DAY THOU SHALT BE WITH ME IN PARADISE ..."

One of the two thieves, called Dismas, became aware of some of the mysteries. Being assisted at the same time by the prayers and intercession of most Holy Mary , he was interiorly enlightened concerning his Rescuer and Master by the FIRST WORD on the Cross. Moved by true sorrow and contrition for his sins and there upon speaking to Jesus: " Lord, remember me when thou shalt come into Thy Kingdom."

In this happiest thieves, in the centurion and in the others who confessed Jesus Christ on the Cross, BEGAN TO APPEAR THE RESULTS OF THE REDEMPTION.

3 - WOMAN, BEHOLD THY SON... SON, BEHOLD THY MOTHER (John 19:26 )

The Lord called her WOMAN and NOT MOTHER, because THIS NAME OF MOTHER HAD IN IT SOMETHING OF SWEETNESS AND CONSOLATION, the very pronouncing of which would have been a SENSIBLE RELIEF. During His Passion He would admit of no EXTERIOR CONSOLATION, having renounced for that time all exterior alleviation and easement.

By this word WOMAN, he tacitly and by implication wished to say,..."WOMAN, BLESSED AMONG ALL WOMEN, THE MOST PRUDENT AMONG ALL THE DAUGHTERS OF ADAM,...WOMAN, STRONG AND CONSTANT, UNCONQUERED BY ANY FAULT OF THY OWN, UNFAILING IN MY SERVICE AND MOST FAITHFUL IN THY LOVE TOWARD ME, which even the mighty waters of My Passion could not extinguish or resist. (Can't 8:7 ) I am going to My Father and cannot accompany Thee further; My beloved disciple will attend upon Thee and serve Thee as his Mother and HE WILL BE THY SON .All these the heavenly Queen understood. The HOLY apostle on his part received Her as his own from that hour on...He reverenced and served Her for the rest of her life.

4 - "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAS THOU FORSAKEN ME..." ( Matt 27:46 )

He grieved that His copious and superabundant Redemption, offered for the whole human race, SHOULD NOT BE EFFICACIOUS IN THE REPROBATE and that He should find Himself deprived of them in the Eternal happiness, for which He had created and redeemed them.

HE LOVINGLY AND SORROWFULLY COMPLAINED OF IT, IN SO FAR AS GOD DEPRIVED HIM OF THE SALVATION OF THE REPROBATE.

5 - "I THIRST..." - He was thirsting to see the captive children of Adam make use of the liberty, which He merited for them and offered to them and which so many were abusing. He was athirst with the anxious desire that all should correspond with Him in the FAITH and LOVE due to Him, that they profit by His merits and sufferings, accept His friendship and grace now acquired for them, and that they should not lose the eternal happiness which He was to leave as an inheritance to those that which to merit and accept it.

THIS WAS THE THIRST OF OUR SAVIOR AND MASTER and the most blessed Mary understood it alone perfectly.

6 - "CONSUMMATUM EST" - "IT IS CONSUMMATED" ( John 19:29 )

"Now is consummated this work of My coming from Heaven and I have obeyed the command of My Eternal Father who sent Me to SUFFER AND DIE FOR THE SALVATION OF MANKIND. Now are fulfilled the HOLY Scriptures, the prophecies and figures of the Old Testament, and the course of My earthly and mortal life assumed in the WOMB OF MY MOTHER. Now are established on earth MY example, My doctrines, My Sacraments and My remedies for the SICKNESS OF SIN committed by men; THE WHOLE WORK OF MY COMING INTO THE WORLD IS PERFECTED IN SO FAR AS CONCERNS ME... It's Restorer; the secure foundation of the TRIUMPHANT CHURCH is now laid in the CHURCH MILITANT, so that nothing can overthrow or change it

THESE ARE THE MYSTERIES CONTAINED IN THE FEW WORDS: "CONSUMMATUM EST."

7 - "FATHER, INTO THY HANDS I COMMEND MY SPIRIT..."

The Lord spoke these words in a loud and strong voice, so that the bystanders heard them. In pronouncing them He raised his eyes to Heaven, as one speaking with the eternal Father, and with the last accent He gave up his spirit and inclined his head.

By the divine force of these WORDS Lucifer and with all his demons were hurled into the deepest caverns of hell, there they lay motionless. The invincible Queen and Mistress of all virtues understood these mysteries beyond the understanding of all creatures, as She was the Mother of the Saviour and the Coadjutrix of his Passion.(nardzcedo*)