obediently to the Father’s will. There is a momentum to the work of salvation. As he prayed that psalm, the last invocation of Psalm 22 “May your hearts be ever merry!” it seemed to stir in Him already the smell of the Easter lily, a scent that should always be with us at every moment and hour of our day even on Good Friday and every day.
R “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Mt 27:46). It is the cry of Job, of everyone struck by misfortune. And God is silent. He is silent because his response is there, on the cross: Jesus himself, the eternal Word who out of love became man; he is God’s answer. — Archbishop Giancarlo Maria Bregantini, Papal Way of the Cross at the Roman Colosseum, Good Friday, 2014
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