Jesus’
life was one single prayer. At decisive moments (his temptation in the desert,
his selection of the apostles, his death on the Cross) his prayer was
especially intense. Often he withdrew into solitude to pray, especially at
night. Being one with the Father in the Holy Spirit
—that
was the guiding principle of his earthly life. [2600-2605]
“I and the Father are one.” Jn 10:30
Jesus prays Psalm 22, which begins with the
words: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Ps 22:2). He takes to himself the whole
suffering people of Israel, all of suffering humanity, the drama of God’s
darkness, and he makes God present in the very place where he seems
definitively vanquished and absent.
JOSEPH CARDINAL RATZINGER / POPE BENEDICT XVI,
Good Friday 2005
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