God can bring good out of evil, just as on Good Friday the redemption of the world is accomplished through the wicked plotting of corrupt and weak men.

We are learning anew in these days that Adoration of the Eucharist is a necessary complement to Holy Communion. The Church needs both.

At the most basic level, having to live without Holy Communion reminds us not to take that ineffable gift for granted.

The physical wounds of the Passion are the exterior signs of the interior wages of sin. God has not forsaken us, we have forsaken Him.

The suffering, sweating, bleeding, thirsty body of Jesus is not an abstraction or a principle; it is a reality.

Jesus commends His spirit into the Father’s hands. The scars on the hands of Jesus, the image of the invisible Father, remind us that God’s hands too have scars.

The Holy Father insists, gently but firmly, that fear is not the Christian response to a pandemic. Fear must give way to faith and hope.