Passion Sunday

We are at the beginning of Holy Week. If we want truly to be Christian, this week ought to be a time when we share in a special way in the passion of Christ. We do this not so much by indulging in pious feelings, but by bearing the burdens of our life with simple fortitude and without ostentation. For we share by faith in the passion of our Lord precisely by realising that our life is a participation in his destiny. We find this difficult, because so often we fail to understand that the bitterness and burden of our own life do - or should - give us a mysterious share in the destiny of all human beings… If we were aware of this…we would understand that his passion is the unique acceptance of the passion of humankind, in which it is accepted, suffered, redeemed and freed into the mystery of God.

Karl Rahner SJ