Episode Transcript
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This Sunday of the Lord’s
Passion, we begin our Holy Week:
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to pray, reflect and celebrate
the great mystery
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of the life, death and resurrection
of Jesus.
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We come to know a God, in Jesus,
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who is not simply observing human
suffering from a distance,
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but who is with us in our suffering.
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Through this great mystery, the
suffering that we carry in our lives
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brings us into solidarity with
all of humanity,
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and it has the ability to teach us great
compassion, to be shared with others.
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Jesus is in solidarity with Simon,
the migrant, who is plucked from the crowd,
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with the weeping women who follow him,
and with the criminals who are crucified with him.
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Jesus lives in solidarity with their
suffering and with ours.
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The cross was Jesus’ voluntary
acceptance of undeserved suffering,
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as an act of total solidarity with the pain
and injustice of the world.
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From the cross, Jesus teaches us that the answer
to suffering is not more violence and more injustice,
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but trust in the power of God’s creative,
forgiving and life-giving love.
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By sharing in our suffering, Jesus invites us
to respond with generosity and compassion.
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Jesus invites us to receive our suffering
so that it might open our eyes to the suffering of others.
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So that we might become compassionate witnesses
of God’s boundless love and solidarity,
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leading us to be sharer’s in the
mystery and hope of resurrection.
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Together, may we walk gently through the mysteries
that we celebrate this Holy Week,
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in solidarity with one another and our God,
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who is walking the way of the cross with us,
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through suffering and death,
to the new life of resurrection.
