"Certainly it is the great secret of the spiritual life to abandon to God all that we love by abandoning ourselves to all that He wills."  St Louise de Marillac

"Jesus let himself be cruelly condemned and put to death to make expiation for the "original sin" committed by our first parents, as well as for the terrible tide of sin which flows throughout all of human history.  the events on Golgotha are thus revealed as an act of supreme love."  Blessed John Paul II (quoted in Magnificat, p. 183)