The Alliance in Blood (Mc 26, 26-29)

Alianza wants to express that God wants to live with his Pueblo and that he doesn't want to remain in the sky for what happens in his life, nor does he expect him to make a plea, but that he wants to share the life of his Pueblo with its events.

The Gods' alliance with their pueblo in the AT sealed with the blood of animals provided communication with God, now the New Alliance is sealed with the Blood of Christ, in a definitive way and forever.

The New Covenant is celebrated in the last scene of Jesus with his apostles, alluding to the sweet tributes of Israel and with the blood of Christ shed by all for the forgiveness of sins “Taken and drunk”.

Is there a new alliance missing? Wasn't la del AT enough? The pueblo was unfaithful to God, who abandoned it in search of other dioses, thinking that they would fill their lives, and would find emptiness and meaningless.

For this reason the prophets announce the New Covenant, but for the infidelity of the Pueblo, not for the infidelity of God, but now the clauses of the New Covenant, instead of being inscribed in stone, are being carved into a heart of flesh that I love.

Details of the New Alliance

• It is celebrated in a friendly scene between Jesus and the Doce
• The Alliance's cup means that everyone drinks, not a representative of the Sweets, but all the Sweets, with this Jesus is saying, that, if He dies for everyone, we all have to be willing to drink, with Him, the cup of bitterness and the suffering of others.
• In the end, there is a charge. “”haced this in my memory”, so every time we gather to celebrate the Eucharist, we celebrate the Passover of the Señor, his passion, death and resurrection.
• San Pedro, in one of his letters, tells us that we have been bought in gold or gold, with the Precious blood of Jesús, and he says, that through this Alianza we have become children of God, and that through our veins runs the blood of his Hijo Jesús, which we share with each other.
• Therefore, the outpouring of the Blood of Jesus, to the last drop, is the act of God's greatest love for humanity, a free love, because the Alliance, is not a contract of mutual services (I give you something and change me), because God doesn't want anything, doesn't ask us for anything, he only intends to establish with us a dialogue of disinterested love and for our sake On the other hand, we don't have to do things for God to reward us, but in response to the love that holds us.

Alliance Commitments  

1. Having devotion to the Blood of Christ is not having a greater devotion, which requires us to be testimonies of the Love of God.
2. To do this, we have to die to the desires of the flesh: greed, selfishness, selfishness, arrogance, indifference… and live in love, joy, peace and hope.
3. Let us have trust in God, because He is faithful and never abandons us and if we are unfaithful, let us go to God who will shelter us and will not abandon us.
4. Communing with the cup of Jesus, is accepting the sufferings and labors, the successes and the failures with peace, patience, humility and joy to be other “sick Christians”.
5. Despite the difficulties and the “sticks” that give us life, we cannot despair, nor hundir us, nor abandon it altogether; He suffered before for us and for us, children of God, like El, we must run to his own fate.
6. Devotion to the Blood of Christ, asks us to celebrate, like Jesus, fraternity and friendship, both in the Eucharist and in everyday life, so that we have to forget grudges, forgive and not have a desire to revenge for the evil that hurt us.
7. The Alliance, in the Blood of Christ, makes us change the idea of a God who punishes and sends us to hell for not complying with the rules, for a God who loves us and who seeks our happiness, without us asking for it.

When life treats us badly and we do not see the light at the end of the tunnel because all the lights have been turned off and we are not capable of finding a way out, we do not forget that the Alliance with God, was consummated in the Cross, and therefore the suffering is redeeming and is the cause of our salvation.

(Fr. Paulino, CPPS)