QUOTATION: Public Faith

Jesus died for you in public, so don’t just live for Him in private.

--Crystalina Evert

QUOTATION: The Suffering of Our Lord

I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.

--Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

QUOTATION: Mortal Sin

The assassin has no reply lo make when he is condemned to death. It is the law of retaliation. Now, a single one of my mortal sins put Jesus Christ to death. I am His executioner and His assassin.

--St. Peter Julian Eymard

QUOTATION: The Crucifixion

God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?

--Pope St. John Paul II

QUOTATION: The Paradox of Divine Love

By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have slain Him; we have nailed Him there and crucified Him; but the Love in His eternal heart could not be extinguished. He willed to give us the very life we slew; to give us the very Food we destroyed; to nourish us with the very Bread we buried, and the very Blood we poured forth. He made our very crime into a happy fault; He turned a Crucifixion into a Redemption; a Consecration into a Communion; a death into Life Everlasting.

--Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, This is the Mass

QUOTATION: The Eucharist and the Passion

If Jesus had not established the Eucharist we would have forgotten the crucifixion. It would have faded into the past and we would have forgotten that Jesus loved us. There is a saying that to be far away from the eyes is to be far away from the heart. To make sure that we do not forget, Jesus gave us the Eucharist as a memorial of His love.

--Mother Teresa of Calcutta

QUOTATION: Jesus' Side Wound

Since the blood of Jesus has a power of cleansing it may in a sense be called water. The reason why water, as well as blood, came out of His side, was to show that this blood could wash away sin.

--St. Thomas Aquinas

QUOTATION: The Crucifix

You are fond of the crucifix; what then would you wish to be, unless crucified?

--St. Francis de Sales, Consoling Thoughts

QUOTATION: Our Sins Crucified Christ

Yes, your sins apprehended Him and bound Him with ignominious fetters, loaded Him with infamy, overwhelmed Him with outrages, bruised Him with blows, and nailed Him to the Cross. His executioners could never have accomplished this without the fatal aid of your sins. Will you, then, feel no hatred for the barbarous enemies who put your Saviour to death? Can you look upon this Victim immolated for you, without feeling an increase of love for Him? All that He did and suffered upon earth was intended to produce in our hearts a horror and detestation of sin. His hands and feet were nailed to the Cross in order to bind sin.

--Louis de Granada, The Sinner's Guide

QUOTATION: The Crucifixion is Now

The Cross is not something that has happened; the Crucifixion is something that is happening. It can be found at any place and at any hour in the human race, for it is the epic struggle of the forces of good and evil.

--Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

QUOTATION: The Purpose of the Passion

Our Lord is upon the Cross saying, I am suffering so that men, who are my brothers, may be happy, not only in Heaven, but also – as far as possible – on earth, if they really embrace the most Holy Will of my heavenly Father.

--St. Josemaria Escriva

QUOTATION: The Crucifixion

Nor did demons crucify him; it is you who have crucified him and crucify him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.


-- Saint Francis of Assisi