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Innocence is the central feature of the martyrdom of the followers of Our Lord Jesus Christ. When all human effort at survival has been exhausted the moment comes, when for the love of the Name of Christ, a person?s life is taken. It is by its very nature innocent and vulnerable but it is also filled with Supernatural Power. The Son of God STANDSat the right hand of the Father to receive the Martyr into eternal glory.
The power that innocence unleashes at this point cannot be measured. It is the homeopathy of Redemption. Satan, who seeks our martyrdom by hisevilpower has that sameevilpower broken and cast down by the innocence that is attached to martyrdom. Thisisthe very core of the message of the Cross. Satan seeks to bring death to Jesus and the death of Jesus undoes and destroys the power of Satan.
In the same way that greed and a hunger for money has a spiritual wickedness sown into it, innocence is endowed with supernatural power. Innocence has no need of human protection at one level as it is integrated into the very core of the essence of God. This does not take away the need for the strong to protect the weak, but rather it is a principle that even when that which is vulnerable, the innocent, is destroyed it releases untold cosmic power.
Innocence is also the central focal point of the Fruit of The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit pours forth His Fruit through the heart that has been emptied of self and filled with the Innocence of God. The Scripture is so clear. There is no law that is against the Fruit of The Spirit.
The ultimate destiny of being a partaker of the Divine Nature is a destiny of innocence. It may mean martyrdom. It will always mean dying to self. It always means however, beauty, power and un-impeachability.
Now after that avalanche of words, let us go back to the tomb.
This pure undefiled Innocence, this Holy One, Our Lord Jesus Christ, enters into a state of death. When Jesus is taken from the Cross the Body of the Incarnate One is dead.
This is where we identify with him in more than any other way. In death, on Holy Saturday, Jesus is more like us than at any other time in His life on earth.
When Jesus enters death His Holiness penetrates death and changes death into something else. Let?s enlarge on this.
When Jesus entered the waters of Baptism, all water, everywhere, became something new.
When Jesus spat on the dirt of the earth and made clay and used it for healing He was making all earth, everywhere, something new.
Whatever the water and the earth were before the invasion of the Eternal Son of God, they were something new and different now.