2 April 2021
Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion
If you could weigh all the works of art depicting the life of Christ, the vast tonnage would include two aspects of the life of Christ: Christ as a baby and Christ on the Cross or art related to the passion. Artists, for the greater part, portrayed Christ either as a baby swaddled or body scorned. In each case the vulnerability of Christ always comes through and that vulnerability is viewed by his Mother. What did the gospel writers intend when they placed Mary at all the great moments of the life of Christ and the formation of the Church at Pentecost? Perhaps, since Mary is human like us, we are asked to see what she saw with the faith proclaimed at the Annunciation and what we pray for in the Our Father: Your will be done on earth as it is even. If Christianity carries credibility it is because it has embraced human suffering. Today we can only marvel in the love of God, the faithful witness of Mary. Like her, try to find God’s will in the questions about human suffering and perhaps those events in our lives that still very much hurt.