The Summit of Love

"At three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice,

‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’" (Mt.27,46)

It is the climax of His sufferings,

it is His interior passion.

It is the tragedy of a God Who cries out:

"My God, my God why have you forsaken me?".

The infinite mystery of the abyssal suffering

which Jesus experienced as a man.

It is the measure of His love for man.

He wanted to take upon Himself

the separation between God and man

and men from each other.

And He bridged the infinite gap of that separation.

All human sufferings are summarised

in that particular suffering of Jesus.

Those who are in anguish, who are lonely

or in a state of aridity,

the disappointed, the failed, the weak:

are they not all, in a way, similar to Him?

Is He not the image of any painful division

among the members of a family?

By loving Him, Christians

find the reason and the strength

not to escape from suffering, from evil, from division,

but to accept them, thus making a personal contribution of their own.

Jesus the Forsaken is the key to unity.