Another word to the wise from the Latin Mass blog. The Wednesday before betrayal.

It's about the Suffering Servant who is Jesus:

Nothing so touches the heart as the tragic suffering of the innocent.

There oughta be a law, we think.

Christ was divinely innocent.

To be sure.

And the tragedy of His anguish and humiliation suggests something of what God thinks of sin.

That slap in the face of the Maker, multiplied over.

The sins of two thousand years after Christ are no more and no less real than the sins of two thousand years before Christ, because with God there is no time.

Timeless, He invented time. Gave us options. World-class experiment.

All the iniquities from Adam to the present moment and to the end of time struck and bruised and crushed God's Son.

Took it on Himself. Heavy, heavy load.

The world's covenant of forgiveness and pledge of heaven is soaked in the flowing blood of Christ.

Covenant. Promise. Agreement. The Maker committed Himself. How high the price, the Son showed us.

In each Mass that blood is again "poured out."

Day in, day out, the world over. Lucky for us.