295th Meditation
“‘It is fulfilled’; and bowing his head he gave up his spirit” (Jn 19:30).
Today, together with the Heavenly Father and all the faithful, our gaze rests on the Cross on which the beloved Son hung. There, on the Cross erected on Calvary, the power of evil was broken by the manifest love of God. It is the Father who grants us true life through the sacrifice of His Son; a new life, which no longer has to hide from God because of its faults. “He was bearing our sins in his own body on the cross” (1 Pet 2:24), and we have been set free. Today is the great Friday, Good Friday! God, the Good One, has done all things well (cf. Mk 7:37).
To bear the sins of this world and nail them to the Cross was an unimaginably difficult path for Jesus. Only love could make it: love for His Father and for us human beings.
To send us His beloved Son to redeem us and to bear all that mankind did to Him was the display of the Father’s unimaginable love.
The Holy Spirit, who is the love between the Father and the Son, reveals this unimaginable mystery of love to us and teaches us to understand it.
In this mystery of divine love on the Cross, the Mother of our Saviour was involved like no one else. Her love remained steadfast even on the Cross.
On this day, Good Friday, we thank God for His love and raise our eyes to the Cross. It has been erected forever, to make us understand how far God’s love goes and what painful paths it travels in order to save us.
God has travelled this path for us, we can stand up and live! It is fulfilled…