Hallelujah! Jesus is alive! Have you met the living Jesus in person? St George Preca, in The Sanctuary of the Spirit of Christ, put in writing how he portrayed Jesus Christ. This helps us visualize the person of Jesus, the second divine person of the Holy Trinity, whom we long to encounter face to face in our life and beyond!
Christ was a tall man with a youthful face with a pale dark complexion.
He was neither thin nor fat. He had a high forehead, black eyes ever cast downwards.
He was a handsome man, as befits the Son of God made man, without any physical defect.
Like all Nazarenes, He wore his hair long of a chestnut colour, as were his beard and moustache.
He walked slowly and in a dignified manner, without any hurry.
His look was serious and grave, and his countrymen never saw Him laugh though they did see Him weep.
His voice was steady and clear, and it could be either gentle or angry depending on the circumstance.
When sitting his position inspired modesty and majesty.
He loved silence. His words were full of learning, consolation, warnings and corrections.
He threatened hypocrites. He knew reading and writing though nobody ever taught Him.
His miracles and wisdom, and his calm and gentle temperament drew the crowds towards him.
He would reject or repulse no one who approached Him.
He showed affection to everybody, but in his choice of friends,
He preferred the lowly, the little ones and the ignorant.
No gift, praise, or any other thing could bribe his principles of justice and truth.
He faced every persecution with courage.
He was honest and upright in everything, and never feared the powerful.
He disciplined his companions sometimes gently and sometimes strongly.
Neither praise nor humiliations effected Him.
He showed delight when people surrounded him to listen to his teachings.
He never taught anything without strengthening his words with example.
His wisdom, witnessed to by his patience, astonished the most astute among the Doctors of the Law.
Many were envious of his talents, and yet He treated them with compassion.
He was inspired only by one ideal:
God the Father towards whom He had a profound reverence, and a zeal for His Law.
He was persistent on defence of divine honour.
He had in him a spirit of sacrifice, love and of mortification with an intense hatred for pride.
He spent the day among the crowds who sought Him for spiritual and temporal welfare.
He loved his widowed mother so much that as He was dying on the cross,
He left her in the care of one of his apostles.
