Or let us pause in adoration before the Eucharist, where Jesus is Bread broken for us, Crucified, Risen, the power of God who pours out his love into our hearts.Īnd now, still guided by Saint Paul, let us take a further step. Let us take the Crucifix in our hands, holding it close to our heart. If we lose the thread of spiritual life, if a thousand problems and thoughts assail us, let us heed Paul’s advice: let us place ourselves before Christ Crucified, let us begin again from Him. And towards the end of the Letter, he affirms: “Far be it from me to glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ” (6:14). He testifies to this in the first person: “I have been crucified with Christ it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me” ( Gal 2:20).
This is why Paul asks the Galatians to return to what is essential, to God who gives us life in Christ crucified. And this is the temptation of the new fundamentalists, of those who seem to be afraid of the path to be taken and who do not move forward but backwards because they feel more secure: they seek the security of God and not the God of security. Today, there are many who seek religious security rather than the living and true God, focusing on rituals and precepts instead of embracing the God of love with their whole being. Who has bewitched you so that you would move away from Christ Crucified? It is an awful moment for the Galatians. He writes thus: “Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?” ( Gal 3:1). He does so by placing before them the reality of the cross of Jesus. He reminds the Galatians, tempted to base their religiosity on the observance of precepts and traditions, that the centre of salvation and faith is the death and resurrection of the Lord.
In fact, the Apostle presents himself as a proclaimer of Christ, and Christ crucified (cf. Saint Paul’s preaching is completely centred on Jesus and his Paschal Mystery. Catechesis on the Letter to the Galatians: 13.
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