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God's Works Through Job-Exaltation of the Holy Cross


The mystery of the holy Cross is a great mystery, but also a very necessary truth. Indeed suffering hits every human being, some more, some less, but all are touched by it. Why to suffer? What is the purpose of suffering? Some atheists even take there a pretext to reject God and they say: if there is a God, why would he permit suffering?


In these two first weeks of September, holy Mother the Church gave us to read in the Divine Office from the book of Job in the Old Testament. I do recommend you to read at least the first two chapters. Job was a very good and holy man, and God had blessed him with riches and honour: he had a good family, with 7 sons and 3 daughters; he had 7000 sheep and 3000 camels. Now the camels were like the lorries of the time: a company with 3000 lorries is big business! He had 500 pairs of oxen: a pair of oxen is like a tractor: a farmer with 500 tractors is a big farmer! And he had 50 donkeys, the cars of the time. Yet he was good to the poor: ¡°I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame. I was the father of the poor:¡± (Job 29:15-16).


One day, God was gathering his counsel of angels, and the devil sneaked in ¡°And the Lord said to him: Whence comest thou? And he answered and said: I have gone round about the earth,¡± (Job 1:7). St Peter adds: ¡°seeking whom I may devour!¡± (1 Pet. 5:8)
¡°And the Lord said to him: Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a simple and upright man, and fearing God, and avoiding evil? And Satan answering, said: Doth Job fear God in vain? Hast not thou made a fence for him, and his house, and all his substance round about, blessed the works of his hands, and his possession hath increased on the earth? But stretch forth thy hand a little, and touch all that he hath, and see if he blesseth [=curse ] thee not to thy face¡± (Job 1:8-11). And God answered: ¡°OK, try!¡±


And in one day, Job lost everything: ¡°Now upon a certain day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother, There came a messenger to Job, and said: The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them, And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all away, and slew the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell thee. And while he was yet speaking, another came, and said: The fire of God fell from heaven, and striking the sheep and the servants, hath consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell thee. And while he also was yet speaking, there came another, and said: The Chaldeans made three troops, and have fallen upon the camels, and taken them, moreover they have slain the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell thee. He was yet speaking, and behold another came in, and said: Thy sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their elder brother: A violent wind came on a sudden from the side of the desert, and shook the four corners of the house, and it fell upon thy children and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to fell thee. Then Job rose up, and rent his garments, and having shaven his head fell down upon the ground and worshipped, And said: Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord¡± (Job 1:13-21).


Now this last answer of Job is most marvelous. Behold the Devil had done all this, and Job says ¡°God has taken away¡¦¡± Behind the devil¡¯s work, He sees the Hand of God. Not that Job accuses God, but he submits himself to God¡¯s providence. The devil could take all exterior possessions from him, he could not take God from his heart. There is a special presence of God in the soul of those living in the state of grace, a presence of friendship, as a friend: this is the sanctuary where the devil cannot reach. God was his treasure, and that treasure the devil could not take.


¡°And it came to pass, when on a certain day the sons of God came, and stood before the Lord, and Satan came among them, and stood in his sight, That the Lord said to Satan: Whence comest thou? And he answered and said: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it. And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple, and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence? But thou hast moved me against him, that I should afflict him without cause. And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin, and all that a man hath he will give for his life: But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt gee that he will bless thee to thy face¡± (Job 2:1-5).


God again said: ¡°OK, try!¡± and the Devil said: ¡°great! Now I have him in my power. I¡¯m sure of my victory¡± and he gave him a most hideous sickness that made his skin purulent from head to toe: even his wife could not bear the stench, so he went on a dung hill to weep his misfortune. ¡°And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy simplicity? bless God and die. And he said to her: Thou hast; spoken like one of the foolish women: if we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil?¡± (Job 2:9-10).


O holiness of Job! What a marvelous answer! He is afflicted most grievously, and yet he receives patiently all such suffering from God¡¯s hand without rebellion. Truly St James could say: ¡°patience hath a perfect work¡± (Jac. 1:4).


If you are sick and need an operation, you are put on the operating table: if you start to look at the sharp instruments on the side-table, you will be most afraid and run away, but if you focus on the good doctor¡¯s face, then you have confidence and remain at peace. So the devil (and his human helpers) are sometimes sharp instruments which God uses for our healing and sanctification. We should not focus on them, but like the holy man Job, we should rather focus on our Lord Jesus Christ¡¯s goodness and wisdom, Who uses them for our redemption and sanctification.


Then Job asks: Why, o Lord? What did I do to deserve such sufferings? I am innocent!
Three friends of his come and try to argue with him that he must be a great sinner, to be so struck by God; yet Job protests his innocence. The chapters 27-31 are most beautiful to read: he was truly a holy man. Why then did he suffer?


At the end of the book, God himself intervenes and speaks to Job and his friends. And God¡¯s answer is not an answer to Job¡¯s question; it is an affirmation of His power and Wisdom: ¡°did you create the world? Where were you when I established all things?¡± In one word: ¡°I know what I am doing! TRUST ME!¡±


This is already a good answer, but the full answer would come later¡¦ in the new Testament: it is the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ! Indeed if there was ever an innocent who suffered, it was our Lord Jesus Christ, innocence itself, and who suffered more than anyone else. So why did HE suffer? A simple answer is that precisely because God is just, He would not permit such suffering without compensating overwhelmingly, in a divine manner. Already in Job¡¯s story, at the last chapter, God heals Job and gives him twice as much as before. But these earthly gifts in the Old Testament are figures of spiritual blessings in the New Testament.


The tremendous compensation that God the Father gave to our Lord Jesus Christ for His Sacrifice is to become the Redeemer of the world: God accepted that sacrifice as a worthy reparation for all the sins of all humans and creature from the beginning till the end! God granted to our Lord to merit graces for all men, and to actually save the innumerable army of the elect. Our Lord was most innocent; and He accepted most willingly the Decree of the Most Holy Trinity that he would offer himself as a victim of expiation; and for these three hours on the cross – even counting the whole passion from the evening of Holy Thursday to the evening of Holy Friday was compensated with this tremendous reward. Yes indeed, God does not let innocence suffer without compensation.


We can see this also in the Blessed Virgin Mary, who also is the Immaculate, and who suffered at the foot of the Cross: thereby she became Co-Redemptrix, and the mother of all the Redeemed, the mediatrix of all graces! For her too, she shared in the humiliations and cross of her Son, but she also shared in the tremendous reward.


But no one is as innocent as Our Lord; we are not even as innocent as Job. So does that apply to us also? There are three Crosses on Calvary: the cross of innocence, the cross of penance and the wasted cross of impenitence and rebellion. Every man must carry one or the other – and sometimes pass from one to the other. Blessed are we when we stop rebelling and embrace the cross of the penitent: then our sufferings are not wasted but, united with those of our Lord Jesus Christ, they become fruitful for our own salvation. And, if we are docile to the grace of God, we can pay off all our debt here below, through the merits of Our Lord to whom we united our sufferings; and then our sufferings become the cross of the innocent and become fruitful for the salvation of our family, our friends, our neighbor and many others! This is most visible in the life of the Saints, such as St Thérèse of the Child Jesus.


Hence the Cross is exalted, as the most important secret of the Saints: this is indeed the way to Heaven, the way of Our Lord, the way of the Saints. In it we discover the love of God, and we are never so close to Jesus as when we suffer with Him. The secret is to faithfully offer all our sufferings with His and with Our Lady¡¯s to the most Holy Trinity as a sacrifice: and they become jewels of great price.


This is the heart of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.  May our Lady of Seven Sorrows obtain for us the grace to always accept and offer faithful our sufferings with Our Lord so that we may benefit from them and, ¡°if we suffer with him, we may be also glorified with him¡± (Rom. 8:17).


In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.


Fr. F. Laisney