Look to our Suffering Lord

A quote from Catherine:

If we looked more to our suffering Lord, our trials would seem light and consolation would soon come to our hearts.

Today is Good Friday. In some areas it is also called God's Friday, Black Friday or other descriptive words to explain this day. As we meditate on the suffering of our Lord, we can get caught up in the gore and the violence of this day. Rather that be repulsed by the historical experience , let us look to why Jesus suffered. It was his compassion for the outcasts, the healing of those marginalized, the challenge to the staus quo and the love he showed to all.

If we look at his suffering as love, then our trials can turn to love as well. Our hearts can be turned to suffering in a different way and peace can them come to our hearts.

We have many examples of this in daily life-a mother who is up with a sick child, an athlete training, a student studying, a person who is disabled striving for independence, a firefighter, a police officer, an rescue squad.

Today as we gaze upon the cross let us look at suffering in a new light, that of the gift of consolation and peace.

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