Pascha Jezusa, nasza Pascha

Abstract

The Passover faces us with an age-old quandary: God willed His Son’s death and at the same time that He did not desire it; we are all guilty of Jesus’ crucifixion, though it happened according to God’s plan. Many solutions were tried, among which the juridical one, built on the theory of Adam’s fault, became dominant, even though it has aroused various objections through ages. René Girard’s mimetic theory offers a possibility of the reinterpretation of the salvific events. Setting out from his notion of violence as the original sin, I assume that fighting scapegoating as human sinfulness brought Jesus to the cross, and that this act was not only willed, and predicted by God, but also it still needs to be completed. God intervened, raised Jesus from death, and granted people victory in His Son. Jesus’ resurrection is an extraordinary event because He forgave and accepted people – His murderers – as His Bride and partner. Therefore, we are called to unite with the Lamb and to follow Him on that gruelling path of purification from Adam’s sin by receiving His Spirit and by offering ourselves to the wellbeing and purification of the other.