We are going back to our chapter 19
of Saint John which, I recall,
is the fundamental biblical passage
to better know
the Heart of Jesus which reveals to us the pierced side.
So today, we will start,
but we will not be able to do it
entirely in these few minutes.
Commenting on the quotes
actually that John gives us,
He tells us, it happened
so that the writing was fulfilled.
Not a bone will be broken.
This is a quote from Psalm 33.
In fact, in the Bible, it is 34
in the liturgy it is Psalm 33
and in this Psalm 33,
it is about a mysterious
just persecuted, unjustly
already a sort of figure
of a suffering servant.
on which misfortunes fall
while he is just and innocent.
And that’s how towards the end of the psalm,
it says: “woe upon woe for the righteous.”
But each time
the Lord delivers him.
No bone will be broken.
This is what is written
and then in fact, John, having seen
that the soldiers did not break
the legs of Jesus
while they broke the legs of his 2 companions of misfortune.
Well, he said to himself, there you have
it, this psalm is being fulfilled.
And the righteous persecuted
par excellence, obviously, is Jesus,
the suffering servant, unjustly condemned,
unjustly executed.
It is Jesus, not a bone will be broken in
him, no bone will be broken in him.
And so when he meditated
for decades and decades
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later, I remind him:
This is a very important point:
Not everything came to him on Good Friday.
he meditated for decades.
I take a little parenthesis
to come back to this important point.
Moreover, I had said that I will speak about it.
It must be seen
that these meditations were very rich.
All the more so since he probably
made them at the school of the Virgin Mary
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since he welcomed Mary to his home.
However, we are told of Mary that
she never ceased to meditate,
to retain all these things
in her heart, keeping
hem meditating … And at the school of Marie
Jean learned to meditate
particularly on this event there,
by the way. of the Scriptures,
therefore, of the Old Testament,
0nd he deepened them
more and more, and the Gospel
is the fruit of
these decades of meditation.
said to himself: here is the righteous one of whom the psalm speaks, I had him
before my eyes, it is Jesus.
but it doesn’t stop there
because we won’t break any bones in him.
This phrase does not exist
only in Psalm 33. It exists in an
extremely important
passage
of the Old Testament.
In the book of Exodus.
Which we have certainly
heard in part during Lent
or around Easter.
It’s in the 12th chapter of the exodus.
God gives his instructions to Moses
for the celebration of the Passover.
In preparation for leaving Egypt,
he gives Moses instructions in advance
how, from generation to generation,
the Passover is to be celebrated.
So God said, you will choose a lamb.
Spotless, that is to say flawless,
immaculate, one year old.
You will slaughter it at dusk
on Easter evening.
You will slaughter it in the twilight,
then you will take the blood
and you will put it on your doors,
on the lintels of your doors.
There you have it, because of the 10th plague like that,
the exterminator will not enter your home
while he is going to strike
all the firstborn in Egypt.
So the lamb there,
and in the 46th verse of this long
chapter 12 just exactly,
what did he say?
Whatever remains
in the lamb, of the lamb,
you will burn it outside,
no bones will be
broken.And therefore Saint John understood
that the true paschal lamb,
He also had it, under his eyes, with Jesus.
Source: Fr. Kars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8UoQjr-Uhc&t=81s