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Although this Sunday is no longer called “Passion Sunday”, the central theme of today’s Gospel is the Cross. God the Father is glorified by the Cross. When the grain of wheat, Jesus himself, dies, he will draw all to himself. The gentiles who wish to meet with Jesus will meet him and come to know him on the cross. All his followers will follow the cross, choosing death with him in order to share his resurrection.
“Glory” is a word we use much without stopping to ask its meaning. It means that which shows the rank, attractiveness, true nature of someone. The scrambled egg on an admiral’s sleeve shows us that he is an admiral and, hence, is his “glory”. St Paul says that the glory of a woman is her hair: it was that which attracted males in St Paul’s time.
The Father is glorified by the Cross because Christ’s death on the Cross reveals God as totally self-giving Love , a love that is reflected in Christ’s death.
For the same reason, gentiles who wish to see Christ will truly get to know him when they see the crucifix. More than in any other situation, it is on the Cross that Christ reveals who he truly is. It is by this love that Christ conquers the devil and sin.
Christ draws all to himself on the Cross. To see how, we must connect this with the opening sentences of St John’s Gospel:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God…..All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being.
Because Christ’s death on the cross was the death of the Word made flesh, this contingent, historical event transcended time and place and became effective in all times and places, a dimension of him who enlightens every man who comes into the world and who holds the whole cosmos in being. It became a dimension of created reality itself. It became the focal point of history and the means of universal salvation.
All who follow Christ must be so transformed that they love in the same way. In Pauline vocabulary, Christ must live and love in and through them Therefore, the way of Christianity is the way of the Cross. It is the only way to live as members of his body, because it is a crucified and resurrected body, a body transformed and rendered “fruitful” through death. We reveal Christ’s presence in the world, we make him visible, by the quality of our love which involves death to self and being filled with Christ. This is a Gospel for Lent.
