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Christ's divine compassion from the Cross cloaks the sins of the whole human race

On the Cross Jesus loved His fellow men and women with His divine love and offered an infinite reparation for their offences

By the Father's will, foreknowledge, plan, consent and justice, Christ suffered and died, and leaped up to His Father, drawing us in His wake.

By the Father's will, foreknowledge, plan, consent and justice, Christ suffered and died, and leaped up to His Father, drawing us in His wake.

How the Angels, thousands of them, shuddered in horror as the very Son of God died on Calvary, in His surrender and infinite praise of the Father.

Christ came into the world, offering His entire life to His Father, from infancy to death. In the Mass, that same Christ-child, at Christmas, offered Himself and His life to the Father, for the Father's glory. Christ gave glory to God at every moment of His earthly existence, and still offers praise to Him from our midst today.

What an example of humility was given to us by Christ on Calvary, where our God showed only patience, charity and forgiveness.

Jesus really died for us. In His ordinary, warm, solid, real body, Jesus was mocked, beaten, stripped and crucified, because of our sins - to save us!

We should keep in mind two images of Christ: of Christ wounded, and Christ triumphant.

As we gaze upon the altar, at the offering of His Sacrifice, we hear Christ say: 'Father, forgive them.' He has always loved us. Now, He prays for us as He prayed long ago in His Passion

We can offer up our sufferings in union with Jesus in His Passion, to comfort Him, and to help other souls. Every suffering in our lives can be offered up, united with Jesus in that same type of suffering in His own life: our fear united to His in Gethsemane; our being misunderstood, with Jesus deserted by His Apostles; our grief, with Jesus weeping for Lazarus; our fear of evil forces, with Jesus being tempted by Satan.

Christ loves to come to loving hearts, in Holy Communion. Bitter and resentful hearts make Him feel as He felt in His Holy Passion.

If our hearts are bitter and resentful, when Christ comes to us in Holy Communion, he feels as He did in His Holy Passion

This was the reason for Christ's parting from friends at His Last Supper, for His torment and His dying - the reason was sin.

Whenever Mass is clebrated in our country, it's as if Calvary appears at the heart of England. Those of us who did not live with Christ in his lifetime or stand beside his Cross in history can nevertheless unite ourselves with Him and with His once-for-all Sacrifice, as it is re-presented at every Mass, where Christ is truly Present, praying on our behalf.

When we offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, a parting appears in the 'fabric' of time and we 'touch' the moment of Christ's death on Calvary

From the Cross, Christ saw the ways He would be betrayed in every future generation. Yet He also saw all those who would love Him.

One who chooses to ignore Christ is turning His back on the bleeding figure who suffered death for our sins.

Christ and his saints in heaven look down with great tenderness upon his friends on earth who meditate on his Passion.

Christ and his saints in heaven look down with great tenderness upon his friends on earth who meditate on his Passion.