Jesus calls us to follow him on his own
path of humiliation. When at certain moments in life we fail to find any
way out of our difficulties, when we sink in the thickest darkness, it is
the moment of our total humiliation, the hour in which we experience
that we are frail and are sinners. It is precisely then, at that moment,
that we must not deny our failure but rather open ourselves trustingly
to hope in God, as Jesus did.
Dear brothers and sisters, this week
it will do us good to take the crucifix in hand and kiss it many, many
times and say: Thank you, Jesus, thank you, Lord. So be it.
—from the book The Hope of Lent: Daily Reflections from Pope Francis by Diane M. Houdek
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