2 Corinthians 5:21
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
This coming Friday afternoon the Church remembers, as on each Friday, the miracle of God’s suffering for our sins. It is here, on the Cross, that the drama of Christ’s life reaches a pitch so high it is beyond the range of human hearing. That is why there are so few words spoken in this scene in the gospels. Jesus himself only speaks seven times. But the Evangelists too do not dress up their story with preachments. They simply point us to the Mystery of the sinless God who became sin for us and then bid us to enter in, that we sinners might become his righteousness. How does it all work? No one knows to this day. It is a miracle beyond words, but it is a miracle millions have participated in by being baptized into his death and raised to life with his resurrection. Today, thank God the Son for the gift of his death and life for you.
