[Apologetics] Laminin - the Cross that binds us

[Dianne Dawson]

IN PASSION OF JESUS IS WAY TO LIFE AND A FORCE THAT BINDS US 
SPIRITUALLY AND EVEN PHYSICALLY 
The other day -- on 
Palm Sunday -- a priest mentioned the intensely interesting aspects of a human 
protein called laminin [left and below]. We have written about it before. 
The interesting characteristics include the fact that seen under a microscope 
it's shaped like a Cross -- and binds our cells together.  
The priest said that in one 
microphotograph it even seemed like there was a corpus on the cellular 
structure. 
Noted the Truth or Fiction website 
(confirming it): "Laminin is defined by the Webster Medical Dictionary as a 
'glycoprotein that is a component of connective tissue basement membrane and 
that promotes cell adhesion.'  In other words, looking at laminin as a kind of 
glue isn't far from the truth." 
The point of the homily: just as 
laminin pervades and holds together the body, so should the Passion pervade us 
and hold us together spiritually. The Crucifixion of our Lord is our glue -- 
whether we realize it or not.  
Passions are funny things. When we have a 
passion, we get lost in it. It is a reverie. We block out everything else. Look 
at the example of a person playing a guitar -- really into it -- or eating a 
special meal (or with gluttony). 
There are bad passions. They rot the flesh. We are consumed. There is 
bad fruit from passion and then the tastefulness and beauty of the passion 
fruit. Good passions send us into a state that can be transcendental. Both types 
of passion are desires and when we desire something strongly it often brings 
what we desire into reality. When the passion -- when the desire -- is good, we 
often sacrifice or even suffer before we attain it (as did Jesus). This is the 
main dictionary definition of the word "passion": to suffer, to endure. Good 
desires create good reality and often require sacrifice and suffering of some 
form -- whether simple labor or diligence or actual pain. When the passion is 
bad -- when it is an overexcitement, or inordinate desire (which is the sixth 
Webster definition of "passion") -- we will get what we want but suffer afterward.  
We can mediate upon this during Holy Week. 
What binds you? What blinds you? What are your passions? What are their fruits? 
Do they hold together, or set apart?  
The reverie should be Christ. We should be 
"lost' in Him. We should see through His eyes. We should revere Jesus, not food, 
not money, not entertainment, not sex. This Sunday, as we sit down to eat, let 
us seek the strongest "laminin." That's the "laminin" that not only holds our 
bodies together but binds us to His transcendence.
 
source: http://spiritdaily.com/passionlaminin.htm
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