Caught up with Jesus and Mary in God's Compassion: God-"He Who Is"-is beyond change and emotion, so in a literal sense God, as God, does not suffer. But the powerful metaphor of God's compassion points us to dimensions of his infinite love, which is manifest as mercy. Hence our works of mercy and compassion are an imitation of God, even a participation in the Personal Divine Love we call "the Holy Spirit". Jesus Christ, the Word become flesh, is the Incarnation of God's mercy, and his Passion is the great revelation of God's compassion. The "images of pity", especially those in which Mary suffers with Jesus, attract and inspire our compassion. Because of the Passion of God the Son, it is literally true that God has suffered, and suffered in solidarity with the whole creation "groaning in travail". Perhaps it is better to say: we are given the privilege of suffering in solidarity with God.
Fr. Richard Conrad, OP, gained a PhD in chemistry at Cambridge before joining the Dominican Order and studying philosophy and theology in Oxford and Rome. He has been novice master for the English Dominicans, and prior or parish priest in several houses. He teaches dogmatic theology and the thought of Thomas Aquinas in Oxford, and at Maryvale Institute in Birmingham, and after being vice-regent of studies at Blackfriars, Oxford, has become director of the Aquinas Institute there.
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