‘It is finished.’
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Read More‘I thirst.’
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Read More‘Woman, behold your Son. Behold your Mother.’
Read More‘Today you will be with me in paradise.’
Read More‘Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.’
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Read MoreJesus’ final words from the Cross — ‘It is finished’ — do not signal an end, but a consummation. Through the Creed and the Cross, we are invited into the mystery that continues through the Church, the sacraments, and the promise of resurrection.
Read MoreThe sixth word Christ utters from the cross brings us to the death of the Lord Jesus, crucified for our sake.
Read MoreThe fifth word from the cross points to Christ’s real bodily suffering — and his divine thirst for our salvation — as foretold in Scripture and confessed in the Creed.
Read MoreThe fourth of Christ’s ‘Seven Last Words From the Cross’ reflects the mystery at the heart of the Nicene Creed — a suffering God who prays Psalm 22 and transforms our dereliction into redemption.
Read MoreThe third of Christ’s ‘Seven Last Words From the Cross’ reveals the feminine and maternal dimension of the mystery of salvation.
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Read MoreYou have to draw close to hear the words, for a crucified man struggles to speak, his lungs crushed under the pressure of his own weight, even as his body screams to him in pain.
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