BRIDEGROOM.

BRIDEGROOM.

Tonight....the devout service of the Bridegroom.... 

The Church shows us Christ as the Bridegroom, 

as the Groom of the bride of our soul.... 

But why not with an icon with Christ 

teaching, working miracles, praying? 

 For human logic, it is not the most amorous depiction of Christ after all these humiliations, slaps, spitting.....

This depiction comes to show us the beauty, the prettiness of sacrificial Love....

The love that does not consider obstacles as long as it reaches its desired object....

Here are those blessed mathematics of love:

‘‘As much as is spent (love) as much as it yields....’’

This blessed image of the Bridegroom Christ,

speaks to us, addresses tender words

to His beloved, our little soul

and says to her:

‘‘My precious, beloved soul

and so much more will  I was passing by in order to find you.....

Why is my love for you so great.....’’

Trembling are the words

that come out of our soul:

‘’My sweet Jesus

I lower my eyes

because I am ashamed to behold

the magnitude of Your Love....

I become dizzy as I behold the depth of Your embrace....

And the more Your longing narrows me

the hungrier

for Your presence I feel.....

And the more Your Light narrows me

the denser I feel the darkness within me.....

Cover me, my Christ,

with the nakedness of Your humiliation

because my dressed-up shop window has become stained....’’

Father John  Papadimitriou.