VII
GOD – DARKNESS

At night the full moon tells us
that the sun is shining beneath the earth:
and your light is similar: You are
the proof of God, and in our night
only You can reveal the Father Eternal:           Luke 10: 22.
only your lunar light in our dark night
tells us the Sun in shining. As it reflects,
the darkness has an even greater and brighter
brilliancy since, like well-polished marble,
the blacker it is the more it reflects.
God is the darkness around you from which           Exodus 22:21; 1 Kings 8:12;  Psalms 17:12, 96:2.
the light emerges; except when your breast,
its mirror, is hidden. You reveal the mystery
of Divinity set within the darkness
of night, its white blood of
reflected light; because You, the Man,
possessed a body where the spiritual light,
which is darkness for the physical human
eye, is embodied by love.
Lord, you became God for our sake.
As a tribute to humanity, you have blended
your blood, yours and ours, with the light
from the eternal and infinite dark night,
with the essence of divinity. It is a wound
that revealed the light, tearing open the darkness
of God, your Father, the burning sun that shines
through your breast lacerated by a scalding love.
And you encompass the infinity of God
within the sacred temple of your body,
and you fashion eternity with your sighs,
a rosary of pain. Your breast shows us
the white eternity which awaits us,
and in your shining mirror the anxious soul
can see its origin from before this life.
Your humanity reveals the light that is
hidden within the darkness of God
and is a mirror of God.
                                        Your body
is like the dawn, like the dawn after it
drops the black cloak of night, leaving
it coiled around its feet. With your arms
outstretched in a generous gesture
that uncovers your body and offers it
to all who suffer the need for love,
you remove the curtain of darkness
from the terrible state of mystery
which has tormented the race of Adam
throughout the passage of the centuries;
with your outstretched arms you tear open
and push back the black abyss of God,
your Father, and you hang the shroud
which covered you on your cross,
leaving you naked. When you died,           Exodus 26:31; Matthew 27:51.
the curtain of the temple was rent,
the earth shook, the tombs were opened,
and the saints who were resting
rose up to see your white body
which in its nakedness is a naked image
of the Father. You revealed to us
the humanity of God; with your two arms
which unfastened the cloak of mystery,
you revealed to us the divine essence,
the humanity of God, which also shows us
the divinity of man. In your body (which is           Colossians 1:24.
the holy church) it is in God, your Father,
that we live and move and have our being,           Acts 17:28.
as your brothers in the divine family.
And you embody the darkness, enclosing
the shadowy essences within the confines
of your body (the matrix of our race)
because your white body is the shining
cloak of the immense divine obscurity!