Today we commemorate the death of Jesus Christ – dying on the cross for all of us.

A tradition of mine is to watch Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” during the Holy Week.  It is such a powerful portrayal of the events of the of the Lord’s agony in the garden, his arrest and trial, the scourging and the crowning with thorns, His carrying the cross, and finally his crucifixion.

I am so thankful for the price paid for the freedom gained for me, my family, and my loved ones.

In the days when Christ was in the flesh, he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears
to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.  Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered; and when he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him. (Hebrews 5:7-9) Second Mass reading from today’s liturgy

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