Friday of the Pasch: The Holy Cross

Oppressed and condemned 

he was taken away, 

and who would have thought 

any more of his destiny?"  Isaiah 53:8

And God says:  Sorry peoples,  you’ve been trying all this time to pin this on me.  But it’s been you all along.  This divine anger is nothing other than your continuous, spiraling, tit for tat violence. 

And in response I open my life to take the cruciform path that resists playing that game. Instead, to the degree that my faith allows…and in imitation, I offer to bear even a tiny particle of suffering on behalf of another.

Grant me the riches 

of your grace

that, renewed in Spirit,

I may be able to respond 

to your eternal 

and limitless love.  Italian Sacramentary