“To give the last drop of my blood to procure for God the homage of every single creature.”
Saint Peter Francis Neron
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Peter Francis Neron
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Is this not an act of a Co-redeeming imitation of Christ himself? We have hundreds of thousands martyrs and is not their blood a seed for future Christian growth and virtues?
I realize this is not the same thread dealing with Mary’s co-redemptrix title, however it brings to my mind and heart the beauty of complete cooperation with the last drops of one’s life blood on Earth in unity with that of Our Redeemer.
I’ve heard the term mini co-redeemers of which I would say is a glorification of God. Not an invitation to equalization of God, but a totality of love given to the Creator through the blood of the giver with the faith of Saint Stephen and the trust that more Sauls will become more St.Pauls.
Philip:
Excellent insight.
No man cannot redeem himself. Only God can redeem man.
Philip:
If every human being from Adam until the end of time maintained our original innocence into which all mankind is created and our choice is to lovingly do the will of God perfectly, then, there would be no death, war, famine or pestilence; and Jesus Christ would not have had to be crucified to redeem mankind.
Jesus Christ in His Hypostatic Union would have come down to earth to be the Son of Mary, Virgin Mother, Daughter of the Most High, Spouse of the Holy Spirit and Mother of God.
Thanks Mary and your right to say that no man can redeem himself. Man can not even do a worthy act of mercy for a neighbor on his own.
Without God man can do nothing, but with God nothing is impossible.
Thank God. Oh happy fault of Adam in as much as we glory in His inscrutable ways.
Don’t get me wrong. A heavenly life from the very beginning sounds so effortless, so easy. This life, our struggle, is filled with opportunities to love God in ways more deeply than if the fall of man never happened. (?) We will never know that while we are here, but I wonder if that’s the case.