**The Way of the Cross is the Way to Life.**
“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed.” Isaiah 53:5 Good Friday, the day we remember the death of Jesus Christ for mankind two over thousand years ago. In short, we try to picture/replay the Stations of the Cross, we try to place ourselves amidst the actual crowd that saw Jesus beaten, insulted, mocked, nailed to the cross and die. Why do we do this? Why do we recall a memory that was painful in all ramification? Why do we go back to see how Jesus was crucified? The answer is simple: the death of Jesus is good; very good – so good that it is actually the best thing that has ever happened since the beginning of the world. Yes. As at on that very day that Jesus died, it appeared like a bad day, Mary cried, John the Beloved cried, the other disciples fled, Veronica and all the women of Jerusalem wept for Jesus. Everything seem...