Jésus, Fils de Dieu, fait homme de la misère. L'abaissement et la glorification du Christ chez le Père Joseph Wresinski

Jean Lecuit s.j.
«Jesus, Son of God made man of misery». This expression of Father Joseph Wresinski may seem shocking. It imposed itself to him while he was contemplating the Gospel wit -a the eyes of the poorest. The meaning of these words is that Christ, in his total surrender to mankind, has espoused the condition of the poorest. Had he not so thoroughly «emptied» himself, they (and all mankind with them) could not know themselves as being saved. Christ's abasement is the necessary condition of the universality of salvation. The phrase would then translate, in the history of Jesus, the reality of the mystery of Christ who has been «made sin» and who triumphs from sin. In the condition of misery that is the fruit of mankind's sin, the resistance that the poorest offer to that wretchedness which destroys them is a sign of the presence of the risen Christ among the men and the women of all times.
Jésus, Fils de Dieu, fait homme de la misère. L'abaissement et la glorification du Christ chez le Père Joseph Wresinski

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