Friday, May 27, 2011

Our Title



There is but one truly just man: Our Blessed Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  But He asks us to be like Him and, by His grace, we can be made just men.  You find this in the New Testament Epistles as well.

The title to this page "The Just Man is a Law unto Himself" is taken from Saint John of the Cross, describing the ascent to Mt. Carmel (heaven).  The saint has a picture of what one must go through to get to heaven, and at the top of a drawing of a mountain, St. John of the Cross writes: "Here there is no law, for the just man is a law unto himself."

It is this stature that we wish to obtain.  All the passions and temptations of the world subjugated to the will by the grace of God and the cooperation of the just man with that grace.