VIA CRUCIS — ROBERTO FERRI (DETAIL)
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[Via Crucis by Roberto Ferri]
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Nathaniel Currier, Jesus bearing his cross, 1848
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Sebald Beham, Hercules carrying the columns of Gades | The Labours of Hercules, 1545
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The fruit the Lord expects from us is love — a love that accepts with him the mystery of the Cross, and becomes a participation in his self-giving[.]
Pope Benedict XVI (Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration, page 262), trans. Adrian Walker
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È stata la prima senza di te. Tu ci sei ancora eppure non ci sei più.
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Holy week in Badolato, Calabria, Italy
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Pier Paolo Pasolini al "Monte dei Cocci" a Testaccio - Roma
La croce è a ricordo dell'antica tradizione della Via Crucis del 1700 che terminava a Monte Testaccio.
Foto Paolo Di Paolo
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L’Agnello sgozzato
Venerdì santo, l’azione liturgica è dominata dalla croce; manifestazione luminosa dell’amore divino spinto alla follia.
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What is Forgiveness, Really?
How to overcome guilt is a central question for every human life [...] Guilt calls forth retaliation. The result is a chain of trespasses in which the evil of guilt grows ceaselessly and becomes more and more inescapable. In this petition [forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us], the Lord is telling us that guilt can be overcome only by forgiveness, not by retaliation. God is a God who forgives, because he loves his creatures; but forgiveness can only penetrate and become effective in one who is himself forgiving.
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If we want to understand the petition fully and make it our own, we must go one step further and ask: What is forgiveness, really? What happens when forgiveness takes place? Guilt is a reality, an objective force; it has caused destruction that must be repaired. For this reason, forgiveness must be more than a matter of ignoring, of merely trying to forget. Guilt must be worked through, healed, and thus overcome. Forgiveness exacts a price — first of all from the person who forgives. He must overcome within himself the evil done to him; he must, as it were, burn it interiorly and in doing so renew himself. As a result, he also involves the other, the trespasser, in the process of transformation, of inner purification, and both parties, suffering all the way through and overcoming evil, are made new. At this point, we encounter the mystery of Christ's Cross.
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Newman once said that while God could create the whole world out of nothing with just one word, he could overcome men's guilt and suffering only by bringing himself into play, by becoming in his Son a sufferer who carried this burden and overcame it through his self-surrender. The overcoming of guilt has a price: We must put our heart —or, better, our whole existence— on the line. And even this act is insufficient; it can be effective only through communion with the One who bore the burdens of us all.
- Pope Benedict XVI (Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration, pages 157, 158-159, 160). Bolded emphases added.
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