Today you will be with me in Paradise
"Today shalt thou be with me in paradise"! It is moving this phrase of Jesus crucified and harrowed with grief, promised salvation to the thief. We call him "thief" and yet she looked at him with love and did not hesitate to make him the greatest promise.
There are many words to say at the foot of the cross, only contemplation and mystery, only a mother crying and a faithful disciple. Yet at the time some words change the course of history, and what seemed to be lost is found and renovated: the mother who no longer a child remains the mother, the child receives the gift of a mother, a mother to many children, the fruit of wondrous cross.
Crying is not weak if you are not whiners, crying is not a defeat if it becomes a way of being and appearing, crying is not bad even though it hurts physically. Mary has been crying for his only son on the cross, cried the women who met Christ on the cross street and wept for their children. Let our tears washing for a living new, are the result of a spontaneous and genuine emotion before the immense love that flows from being looked at from the cross, by love, by whom though God wept.
"Today shalt thou be with me in paradise"! It is moving this phrase of Jesus crucified and harrowed with grief, promised salvation to the thief. We call him "thief" and yet she looked at him with love and did not hesitate to make him the greatest promise. There was no man who has received from Jesus this solemn guarantee of living with him in paradise. The fruit of the cross of salvation begins on the cross.
You adore him who was crucified? Proclaim your faith with clarity and joy, esaltane the greatness of spiritual goods obtained, adorala worm as a means and symbol of salvation of our souls. Through the Cross "death is no more death, but sleep," with a sincere hug! In fact, the cross is pointing up and we are made for heaven. Christ ascended to heaven through the way of the cross. He shows us the way and gives us the coordinates right "in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit." The "Sign of the Cross" is the daily and constant meeting between our poverty and the greatness of God
Marco Pappalardo
