Good Friday is not just one day of the year. It is a day relived in every day of the world. - Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, Death on a Friday Afternoon
I have picked up this excellent book again, as I am sure that even with as much reflection as I did on it last year, I must have missed some things, or forgotten them. Blessed Lent!
There is a depth in these opening words belied by their surface simplicity. Every day of the world, there is unspeakable suffering which only makes sense when we realize that an all-powerful, all-loving God suffers with us. This week, with the real and potential devastation in Japan, the heavy-handed dictatorship clinging to power in Libya, even my own son-in-law in the midst of war, brings this to mind afresh. Either these events are the circumstantial, unavoidable fluctuations of a random, complex world in which we strive to assign meaning at all costs to sense, or they gain their sense only in the context of a loving God who is willing to suffer unspeakably with and for us.
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