From Cornelius a Lapide exegesis of Matthew 27 - The sham trial of Jesus before the Sanhedrin (Published along with other material in Deuteronomy, Deception and Deicide on this crummy blog.
I replaced the words with an ellipsis because it easily distracted from the sham trail itself but it bears publication owing to my own self-righteousness.
When I was a preening teen, I heard the Gospel read in Holy Week and told myself, "I would never have done what the Jews did "- from Palm Sunday to Crucifixion - and then as a teen, and later, I did worse.
What it made it so far worse was that I was regularly receiving Holy Communion and the other Sacraments.
Lord have Mercy on me
Lapide reminds his readers;
A Christian who sins condemns our Redeemer a second time to death, kills Him (as it were), and crucifies Him (see Heb. vi. 6). Whence S. Bridget (Rev. i. 37) tells us that the Blessed Virgin said to her, “I complain that my Son is crucified more cruelly by His enemies in the world now, than He was by the Jews. For the sins with which they spiritually crucify my Son are more abominable and grievous than the sins of those who crucified Him in the body.”
Roman Catechism: Part 1, The Creed
Article 4 Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was Crucified, Dead and Buried
Reasons Why Christ Suffered
The reasons why the Saviour suffered are also to be explained, that thus the greatness and intensity of the divine love towards us may the more fully appear. Should anyone inquire why the Son of God underwent His most bitter Passion, he will find that besides the guilt inherited from our first parents the principal causes were the vice's and crimes which have been perpetrated from the beginning of the world to the present day and those which will be
committed to the end of time. In His Passion and death the Son of God, our Saviour, intended to
atone for and blot out the sins of all ages, to offer for them to his Father a full and abundant satisfaction.
Besides, to increase the dignity of this mystery, Christ not only suffered for sinners, but even for
those who were the very authors and ministers of all the torments He endured. Of this the Apostle reminds us in these words addressed to the Hebrews: Think diligently upon him that endured such opposition from sinners against himself; that you be not wearied, fainting in your minds. In this guilt are involved all those who fall frequently into sin; for, as our sins consigned Christ the Lord to the death of the cross, most certainly those who wallow in sin and iniquity crucify to themselves again the Son of God, as far as in them lies, and make a mockery of Him.
This guilt seems more enormous in us than in the Jews, since according to the testimony of the
same Apostle: If they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory; while we,
on the contrary, professing to know Him, yet denying Him by our actions, seem in some sort to
lay violent hands on him.
I thought it'd be helpful to post the description of who God is from the wonderful Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. from his most enlightening text "Predestination; the meaning of Predestination in Scripture and the Church.
He describes God thusly - God Is infinite Justice, Infinite Mercy and Sovereign Liberty.
Lord Have Mercy. Is that not a true good and beautiful description?
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