Crucifixion was designed (by the Romans) to inflict optimal physical pain. The procedure was dragged out over a good number of hours and the amount of pain inflicted at any given moment was carefully calculated so as not to cause unconsciousness and thus ease the pain of the one being crucified. Indeed they sometimes even gave wine mixed with morphine to the person being crucified, not to ease his suffering, but........to keep him from passing out from pain so as to have to endure it longer. That pain stretched His heart to a great depth. BUT ...... that new space did not fill in with bitterness and anger.It filled in instead with a depth of empathy and forgiveness. (Ronald Rolheiser / 2010)

HAPPY EASTER, BROTHER !

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