Meditating on the Passion

"We will not be able to share in Our Lord's Resurrection unless we unite ourselves with him in his Passion and death (cf Rom 8:17).  If we are to accompany Christ in his glory at the end of Holy Week, we must first enter into his holocaust and be truly united to him as he lies dead on Calvary.  So during these days let us accompany Jesus, in our prayers, along his painful way to Calvary and his death on the cross.  As we keep him company let us not forget that we too were protagonists in all those horrors, for Jesus bore the burden of our sins, each and every one of them.  We were freed from the hands of the devil and from eternal death at a great price, that of the Blood of Christ."  -- from In Conversation with God, vol. 2, p. 229.