“We adore you O Christ and we bless you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.”

“Jesus was forced to carry the cross on which he die. On his head was placed a crown of cruel thorns These represented the weight of all our crosses. What he must have felt as he first took it upon his shoulders! With each step he enters more deeply into our human experience. He walks in the path of human misery and suffering, and experiences its crushing weight.” Will we too not expect to carry our crosses?