tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172588600946128888.post5284415753677556191..comments2023-10-30T10:44:30.645-04:00Comments on A Shower of Roses: Reading the Catechism (Week 3)Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12072984925282936743noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172588600946128888.post-50024838167511941442012-11-05T08:07:59.896-05:002012-11-05T08:07:59.896-05:00Mary did not participate in the sacrifice actively...Mary did not participate in the sacrifice actively, but neither did she attempt to stop it. She knew that it had to be done, though by all information we have, no one told her. Just as Abraham did not know why. <br /><br />I understand why Our Lord was sacrificed, for we would never have understood His love 2000 years later without such a tremendous act. I have never understood why God put Abraham to the test. As an all-knowing God, He knew what Abraham would do. I am still a little baffled.<br /><br />We heard an interesting story at Mass yesterday. One that has supposedly been passed down outside the Bible -- that when Abraham was ready to kill Isaac, he told him he hated him, had always hated him. When the angel stopped him, Abraham told Isaac that he loved him dearly and only told him he hated him because if he had told him that God had instructed him to kill him, then he would have died hating God. Instead he wanted him to die hating his father. Definitely another kind of sacrifice. Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00747308009364094199noreply@blogger.com