“Even the rebellion against God is a prayer”

 

A)  The text of the speech by J.M.Bergoglio:

«Jesus, when he complains – “Father, why have you forsaken me?”- blasphemes? The mystery is this». The Pope confided that in his pastoral experience many times he encountered «people that are experiencing difficult and painful situations, that have lost a lot or that they feel alone and abandoned and come to complain and ask these questions: Why? They rebel against God». And his answer is: «Continue to pray in this way, because even this is a prayer». Just as it was of Jesus when he said to the Father: «Why have you forsaken me? »” (morning meditation in the chapel of the DOMUS SANCTAE MARTHAE,  September 30 2014)

 

B) References to Scriptures:

Make your own the mind of Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped. But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beings are; and being in every way like a human being, he was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross” (Phi 2:5-8)

 

C) Comment:

Jesus Christ, as St. Paul reminds us, has never rebelled against the Father, but He humbled Himself becoming obedient until death, the death of the Cross.

Therefore, right in the moment of the Cross, the filial obedience of Jesus, Man‑God, has reached Its highest point.

Jesus did not rebel at that moment, but He annulled Himself to the Will of the Father.

It is the exact opposite to what Bergoglio said.

The rebellion to God can never be prayer, except for those who believe in he who rebelled against God: satan, the rebellious angel, the enemy of God, the one that God will sink for the eternity.