Great and Holy Friday

I have lived with this great passage for the last thirty and seven years, and on this day I commend it to your attention, believers and unbelievers alike:

It is the long history of a world, and God alone can bear the load of it. Hopes blighted, vows broken, lights quenched, warnings scorned, opportunities lost; the innocent betrayed, the young hardened, the penitent relapsing, the just overcome, the aged failing;( Read more... )

John Henry Newman, The Mental Sufferings of Our Lord in His Passion