Like Jesus, we will suffer humiliation in life, we will all drink the cup, and it will make us deep. But then we have a critical choice: will this humiliation make us deep in compassion and understanding, or will it make us deep in anger and bitterness? That is, in fact, the ultimate moral choice we face in life – not just at the hour of death but countless times in our lives. Good Friday, and what it asks of us, confronts us daily.
--Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI
Facebook, April 2, 2021
Image source: The earliest known depiction of Stephaton, the name given to the bystander who offered Jesus a sponge soaked in wine at the Crucifixion, illuminated manuscript from the Syriac Rabbula Gospels (586), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephaton#/media/File:Meister_des_Rabula-Evangeliums_002.jpg
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