Bishop does a wonderful job discussing psychosis and neurosis and their relationship too Jesus suffering. I cannot recommend this short segment enough! Truly something to ponder. 16:00 -- We most often have sympathy for the physically sick than the mental. We attach a shame to mental sickness and regard it as a stigma. When someone in the family is sick, we hid it. We dont hide when someone has cancer, tuberculosis, etc. Beginning at 17:30 into the video, Bishop says he believes Jesus suffered on the cross for the physical sick and in the Garden of Gethsemane for the mentally sick. Look at the words that describe Jesus agony there, He was sorrowful unto death, sad, heavy, fearful, all of the psychological descriptions of these people whose minds are disturbed in some way. Then he suffered the loneliness that they have. Their isolation from society. Loneliness by finding his Apostles asleep. Loneliness by shutting off all divine consolation. Though He said I might have asked my Father for twelve legions of angels. But more than that He entered into their agony. It was mental agony He suffered, for them. There are various levels of pain. In order to understand his agony, just recall that animals do not suffer as much as we do. We are very opt to read into an animals suffering, but it is actually quite unjustified. An animal may be in pain say for two or three hours and there is each beat of pain, but the animal never adds up the beats. What might be the twentieth stroke of the hammer of pain is not to him the twentieth stroke. It is isolated, its unrelated, its just that moment, but when we suffer, we go back to the past. We say well Ive been suffering this for three or seven years. And we pull all of that past up to the present moment and load it on the present. And then, we look in the other direction. We look off into the future. Maybe five more years, maybe ten more years, I will be tortured. Then we pull that back upon ourselves. Then the present moment has within itself the addition of all that has been and all that we can imagine it will be. That is why we try to distract the sick. To break up that continuity. Now in the case of the agony in the Garden, our Blessed Lord was suffering not physically, He was suffering spiritually and mortally. What physical pain is to you and me, that moral evil is to Him. Rather difficult for us to understand that, but it is true. That only the innocent understand what guilt really is. So He begins to take upon Himself all of the guilt of the world. All of that guilt that produced in some way however indirectly all the psychotic patients of the world. And all of the denial of guilt that produced all the neurotic patients of the world. And that is principally what neurosis is, the denial of the responsibility of their own guilt and He took all of that upon Himself as if it were His own. And the very thought of it, denying Himself all divine encouragement was so great that it drew from out of His body blood that fell as beads forming a rosary on the olive roots, a blood red rosary of redemption. So that from that moment to this, the mentally sick could never say, He does not know what it is to be sad and sorrowful unto death and also in order that we might see in all of the mentally sick of the world the continuation of the Agony in the Garden. Maybe from now on we will have more sympathy for the mentally sick.(VIDEO) I thought you might enjoy this Timothy, Anthony, Elizabeth, Stephanie, David, Letty, Dee, Andrew, Kyle, Ania, John, Geoff, Anne, Grayson
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 18:08:03 +0000
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