The Mystery which we adore in this Holy Week is a great history of love which knows no obstacles. (…) Good Friday is the culminating moment of love. The death of Jesus, who on the Cross surrenders himself to the Father in order to offer salvation to the entire world, expresses love given to the end, a love without end. A love that seeks to embrace everyone, that excludes no one. A love that extends over time and space: an inexhaustible source of salvation to which each of us, sinners, can draw. If God has shown us his supreme love in the death of Jesus, then we too, regenerated by the Holy Spirit, can and must love one another. (…) Let us allow ourselves to be wrapped in this mercy which comes to meet us; and in these days, as we keep our gaze fixed on the passion and death of the Lord, let us receive in our heart his boundless love and, like Our Lady on Saturday, in silence, await the Resurrection. (General audience, 23 March 2016)

The passion story shows us Jesus as God. Jesus is God, that is why he shows us the glorious Christ and the victorious King.The Hour of the Cross is the Hour to enter into communion with God, to enter into communion with the one, holy and universal Church, from which the baptismal water and the outpouring of the Spirit flow. In a sober, silent atmosphere, the prayer of the faithful and the Our Father are made solemnly. The Cross is not a sign of defeat, but of Victory and revelation of the divinity of Jesus. During the day, the steps of Jesus towards Calvary or way of the cross are meditated, always looking at Easter. Look at the tree of the cross, on which the Salvation of the world is hung! With the Cross not everything ends. The cross is not the end, but the beginning.Fr. Alexander