While God the Father did not will the death of the Son, we can still ask why the Father permitted it. The answer lies in the act of our creation.

At the beginning of his Passion, Jesus bears witness to the truth as he allows himself to be proclaimed the messiah.

Christ goes to his death insisting that his life has meaning. When and how he will die can be left to speculation but not so why he dies.

If you think you’ve got him, you don’t. Indeed, you don’t have him until he has you!

As creatures of time and space, we acknowledge the God who fills both by setting aside, sanctifying some of each for God.

In the cross of Christ, God sunders God’s self to draw us and those whom we love into God’s life, which is pure relationship, a love that precedes existence.