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We live in a technology-centered
world. There is nothing
intrinsically wrong with that. Even
advanced technology is morally
neutral; it is a useful tool, either
for doing good or for doing evil. However, our experience of the
power of technology to solve material difficulties can pose a
danger to our spiritual lives. We can forget that as
Christians, what matters most is not what we can do
for God or for ourselves, but what God has done and wants
to do for us. Jesus is primarily our Savior, not our
consultant. Jeremiah makes this clear in today’s First
Reading. Through the prophet’s words, God explains that
he will make an everlasting covenant with us; he will plant
the law of freedom and interior peace within our hearts; he
will forgive our evildoing and remember our sin no more.
The Letter to the Hebrews reminds us of this same truth.
Jesus does not point out how to reach everlasting happiness
and then send us on our way, as if we could make the
journey by our own efforts. Rather, through his life, death,
and resurrection, he himself becomes the “source of eternal
salvation.” And in today’s Gospel passage, Jesus himself
explains that his total love and obedience, up to the point of
his humiliating death on a cross, is the turning point of
history. With his self-sacrificial crucifixion, “the ruler of
this world will be driven out.” In other words, Christ’s
faithful love will undo Adam’s original sin and conquer the
devil’s sinful rebellion, the source of evil in the world. By
announcing this beforehand, he shows that he is going to
suffer it willingly, freely fulfilling his father’s plan

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