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from Vatican Radio
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The last words in Luke’s narrative from Jesus are “Father into your hands I commend my spirit”. This is a glimpse into the life of Christ, which is a life of abandonment to the Father. Jesus is not on the cross because he is doing a heroic act, but because he is following the will of the Father. Interestingly, these words are said just after the veil of the Temple is torn in two. The veil covered the most sacred part of the Temple, where the high priest proclaimed the name of God on a single day of the year. Behind that veil was the inaccessible presence of God. Now that the veil is torn, we are given access to what is hidden there: the life of the Son who entrusts himself to the Father. At the moment when Christ seemed to have least motivation for entrusting himself to the Father, he commends himself entirely. This is the interior life of God – love, trust, abandonment, self-giving.
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