Name : Aeron Josh D.

Cerezo April 16, 2024

Subject : CLVED II Reflection Making

When Dying Means Living

Blood, Tears, and Sweat. Behind the scenes of the passion of Christ is a meaning
rooted deeper than what wounds have to offer, it is the fact that He had power yet He also
had patience. Jesus knew the prophecy and all of what will happen and will happen and all
of it was to end with His resurrection to establish the kingdom of God. But to truly
understand the enigma, let’s go back to the passion of Christ. Basically, the passion of Christ
is about how Jesus was sent to crucifixion by two major cause; the People and Pontius
Pilate. The people where whom I refer to was those who had welcomed Jesus when He was
to enter Jerusalem while waving their greetings and gratitude through waving palm leaves
until everything turns around and they too turned to be the majority that Pilate gave into.
So that makes Pilate a good person? No. Back then, Pontius Pilate was revered as a cruel
judge to who would know him as someone who accuses the innocent and frees the guilty in
short he was outright cruel. At the time of the trial of Jesus, Pontius Pilate asked Jesus of his
accusations and as to why the people wants Jesus dead. With this, he also asked the people
as to why Jesus was wronged and how they want Him to be executed where they shouted
‘Crucify Him!’ and as a confident judge, he gave into them due to power addiction disorder.
Even though his wife told him not to interfere with the issue, he did anyways which finally
kick-started the passion of Christ and led to the crucifixion. But first, imagine being a simple
teacher teaching your students the things that are by standards good and ethical then
suddenly one day you became an issue for spreading misinformation and knowing your
students, they betray you, deny you, while some still yearn for you then while going farther
you learn that you must die to prove your innocence since words are not enough to
persuade them. That is what Jesus has been through however the only difference is that He
had to suffer both physically and emotionally and with His patience, He kept calm from all
the bashing and betrayals of those whom he had teacher, healed, and mostly from those
whom had once looked at Him with welcoming smile. Now at the way to crucifixion, there
were those who believed in Him and still are, the seeds of the Good soil, one who wiped
Him and offered water and one who helped carried His crossing burden weighed by those
who betrayed Him where reaching the last station He prayed to them for they do not know
what they are doing. Even though the robes of the High priests and priests were long, Jesus’
patience were longer because at the last station, He had experienced being nailed to wood
which He was working with before, He experienced being hanged naked and named the
King of the Jews. It was truly a pain that even us cannot endure as Him but it didn’t end
there, the mockeries of the priests and the idling of the Roman soldiers still gave them
emotional damage making it truly embarrassing with one of them bashed out to Jesus
mocking Him while the other believed in Him despite at their state. Then the time came,
‘Elahi, Elahi, Lama Sabachtani’ Jesus said before His last breathe. And great winds and
earthquake shook the grounds causing tremors breaking the temple then the veil and
everyone knew they killed the Son of God. But actually, His death would surpass the
knowledge of people where even Saint Thomas doubts Jesus when He had risen in His
resurrection which gave way to the Christians until today.

So! The passion of Christ is not entirely about Him dying but also about all of what
He had felt, and on how I put it, His passion to save us from our sins. Dying is not about the
natural case of decaying or degenerating but in this sense, about giving sacrifice and
sacrificing yourself in means for others to live life on how you want them make it to be.
Such as this is the perpetual sacrifice our parents commit for us to have the chance to pave
our own future helping us focus on what we want to be and to how we want it to be. Their
sacrifice, of course, proves their eternal love for us providing us care and the things that we
need. But you said Dying means sacrifice and sacrifice is what parents do, so does that
mean they are dying? Of course, but not in a literal sense of degradation on life but the
degradation of self-freedom and time but in truth it really depends on our decision if we
would want it to be either wasted or worth-it. As of now, my father is always out of the
house and sometimes comes rather pretty late at night and normally he would drop by
during the day and go on with his work and of course, as his son and as my father, I care for
him but his care for us is beyond Peter’s faith but who am I to question his faith? My father’s
son. Anyways, his dedication to provide me and my sister with a life that we would find
comfortable really is great and sometimes I see that he is truly dedicated and at times I see
farther than that, I see no freedom and time and we as a sibling feel it noting that my
mother also has work but her’s is from a very far place but it is also a similar case with
her’s.

Anyways, Dying in the sense of to provide living doesn’t mean a literal dying to death
but is a form of dedication and sacrifice for another to be with great comfort and yearn for
the greatest. It is a privilege for a child to have parents dedicated to them, sacrificing time
and once the time is right, the child would dedicate themselves to their parents. Much like
to Jesus’ passion, parents endure different stresses, mentally and physically and at some
point it ends. But hopefully they won’t give up easily, dedication is the fuel to sacrifice but
motivation is the cure to dedication. Our parents are dedicated to provide us a healthy and
comfortable home no only a house. But then, would you rather waste their time? Or make
the best of it? The decision is on to whom they are dedicated to, and it is you.