Kenosis used to refer to Jesus Christ giving up part of his nature as a god and becoming a human – Cambridge dictionary.
Contemplating the Way of the Cross at Our Lady of Joy Abbey, Tai Shui Hang was a strong experience of Kenosis. From the first station of Jesus is condemned to death, he fully lived in human condition, being unjustly condemned to death. Thus, Kenosis means also Jesus, son of God, submitting to human judgement. Along the process of crucifixion, he walked through all our human conditions: Being strongly impacts by our sinfulness, being vulnerable, limited, humiliated, unprotected, wounded, brokenness,.. toward death, nihility.
By living totally the nihility of humanity, he also manifested the unconditional divine love. In His union with our nihility, the divine love penetrates fully in our humanity transforming us into his resurrection.
Thus, Chiara Lubich, one of the spiritual leaders of our times, wrote: I have only one Spouse on earth: Jesus Forsaken. I have no other God but Him. In Him there is the whole of Paradise with the Trinity and the whole of the earth with Humanity.
Mine all that is not peace, joy, beautiful, lovable, serene… in a word, what is not Paradise. Because I too have my Paradise, but is that in my Spouse’s heart. I know no other.
When we can accept the negativity in us, face it with the compassion, or allowing it being illuminated by the gaze of divine love. By recognising our void, allowing His love to penetrate in our nihility, fixing our gaze on Him, we can walk toward his resurrection. In Jesus of the cross (our suffering, negativities) we find Trinity and humanity, or better humanity transformed into Trinity – resurrection.
