The Passion
The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ is a powerful experience that pierces and permeates into our innermost being, affecting us to the core of our heart, mind and soul.
The Passion is a powerfully heartrending experience. We are eyewitness from beginning to end. The sights and sounds in the spectacle of an innocent man of peace envelop us, Jesus Christ, betrayed and abandoned, scourged and crucified.
The violence is graphic and grotesque, which causes us to want to cringe and cower. There are images which affect each one of us personally.
Both exteriorly and interiorly, we manifest how greatly we are moved. The juxtaposition of the horrendous pain and suffering of the Passion is interspersed with touching, poignant, memorable moments along the Way.
This reflects the reality of life, that all life is full of joys and sorrows, light and darkness, truth and lies, happiness and sadness, laughter and tears.
The Blessed Virgin Mary follows her son to his execution. Only by the grace of God, only by the infusion of a supernatural love that is beyond all human understanding. That same kind of love is the love that we need to possess in order for us to follow our pathway with Jesus.
The diabolical torture is physically and emotionally unbearable, it is inhumane, and it is savage. We get a feel of the tremendous price paid by Christ in carrying not only the cross, but also all of our sins.
The Passion is both physically and emotionally draining and exhausting, and yet at the same time paradoxically spiritually introspective and inspirational.
Our pain and suffering only makes sense when it is united to the pain and suffering of Christ. The Passion is a convincing witness to the conviction, that Jesus Christ is the only Way, the Truth and the Life.