The Crucified Jesus is No Stranger, by Sebastian Moore. Paulist Press, 1977.
Sebastian Moore is a great writer of Christology. He gets
to the heart of the matter, especially the human heart, whose hunger and desire for transcendence is apparent in a complicated and alienated society. Hardly just containing religious piety, the Benedictine monk has insightful reflections about expanding the human heart by studying man's voyage as sinful, longing, lonely, grasping, yet filled with great potential. By passing through meditations on Christ and the transformation of his disciples through the mysteries of His death and resurrection,
the reader is able to make tangible progress through that same voyage. Sometimes his presentation requires some effort, but for those whose hearts burn by every word of his reflections, it is a labour of love. Sebastian Moore's works are primarily effective because his reflections about God mirror the image of man [made in His image] who can draw from divine (sacred) heart and make it accessible to every man (or woman).
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Peter lived at a very busy time in history. The Great Western Schism (1378-1417) was settled at the Council of Constance (1414-1418). France and England were fighting the Hundred Years’ War, and in 1453 the Byzantine Empire was completely wiped out by the loss of Constantinople to the Turks. At Peter’s death the age of printing had just begun in Germany, and Columbus's
arrival in the New World was less than 40 years away.
Peter came from a wealthy and pious family in Valladolid, Spain. At the age of 13, he was allowed to enter the Conventual Franciscans. Shortly after his ordination, he was made superior of the friary in Aguilar. He became part of a group of friars who wanted to lead a
life of greater poverty and penance. In 1442 he was appointed head of all the Spanish Franciscans in his reform group.
Peter led the friars by his example. A special love of the poor and the sick characterized Peter. Miraculous stories are told about his charity to the poor. For example, the bread never seemed to run out
as long as Peter had hungry people to feed. Throughout most of his life, Peter went hungry; he lived only on bread and water.
Immediately after his death on March 31, 1456, his grave became a place of pilgrimage. Peter was canonized in 1746.
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In the Bible, a Greek word found only in the New Testament in two places: 1 Thess. 4:16, "For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first"; and Jude 9, "But Michael the archangel, when he disputed
with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, 'The Lord rebuke you.'" Archangels seem to of a class of angels of great rank and power. Apparently, there are three archangels named: Michael, Gabriel, and Lucifer.
