Our Lord’s Passion really begins today, with that first blow that Judas dealt him: the treacherous betrayal of him into the hands of the authorities.
As one prays through the Stations of the Cross, one finds so many different ways of responding to Our Lord’s sufferings. Where, I wonder, do we find ourselves?
Are we like Pilate in the first Station, when through weakness he condemned Christ to die on the Cross? All Pilate wanted was for the crowd to go away and leave him alone For the sake of that quiet life, an innocent man was put to death. It was just unlucky for Pilate that that innocent man happened also to be God.