In 1 Cor 10: 14-22, one of the recommended readings for the Feast of the Sorrowful Mother, which we celebrate today, Paul asks us: "The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the Blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the Body of Christ? Because the loaf of bread is one, we, though many, are one Body for we all partake of the one loaf."
The cup of blessing which we bless, we praise, of which we stand in awe, for which we are grateful: we are participants in that cup, in Jesus' Blood, His suffering and death. It is through Jesus' shedding of His Blood that the world, that you and I, are/were redeemed, sanctified, made holy, made one with God and one another. All the blood shed in this world is Christ's Blood shed over and over again. Everything we suffer and which Christ suffers by virtue of our dying and rising with Him in baptism, is transformed into a redeeming act. Why? because we are united with Christ by God's choice. The potential of our behaviors/attitudes of being being purified by what we suffer becomes a reality in Christ Jesus for those who believe. Jesus took our disobedience into His obedience, obedience even to death on the cross, making us one with Him and His Father for our salvation and that of the whole world.
Wow! "Take, Lord, receive; all is Yours now," we pray in a popular religious song.
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