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Good Friday

“Good Friday: day of the cross, day of suffering, day of hope, day of
abandonment, day of victory, day of mourning, day of joy, day of endings, day of beginnings…I
closed my eyes and could see his sacred body…I saw the immense suffering of
humanity during the centuries: people killing each other; people dying from
starvation and epidemics; people driven from their homes; people sleeping on the
streets of large cities; people clinging to each other in desperation; people
flagellated, tortured, burned and mutilated; people alone in locked flats, in prison
dungeons, in labor camps; people craving a gentle word, a friendly letter, a
consoling embrace, people…all crying out with an anguished voice, ‘My God, my God,
why have you forsaken us?’…with my minds’ eye I saw large crowds of isolate,
agonizing individuals walking away from the cross together, bound by the love they
had seen with their own eyes and touched with their own lips. The cross of horror
became the cross of hope, the tortured body became the body that gives new life;
the gaping wound became the source of forgiveness, healing and reconciliation.”
– Henri Nouwen

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