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Jesus’ final words from the Cross — ‘It is finished’ — do not signal an end, but a consummation. Through the Creed and the Cross, we are invited into the mystery that continues through the Church, the sacraments, and the promise of resurrection.
COMMENTARY: The fifth word from the cross points to Christ’s real bodily suffering — and his divine thirst for our salvation — as foretold in Scripture and confessed in the Creed.
COMMENTARY: The fourth of Christ’s ‘Seven Last Words From the Cross’ reflects the mystery at the heart of the Nicene Creed — a suffering God who prays Psalm 22 and transforms our dereliction into redemption.
COMMENTARY: The third of Christ’s ‘Seven Last Words From the Cross’ reveals the feminine and maternal dimension of the mystery of salvation.
God From God, Light From Light, True God From True God
You have to draw close to hear the words, for a crucified man struggles to speak, his lungs crushed under the pressure of his own weight, even as his body screams to him in pain.
Study ‘The Seven Last Words’ EWTN Online Learning Series
This year’s meditations by Father Raymond J. de Souza honored the late Cardinal George Pell, including some of his meditations from his ‘Prison Journal.’
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