Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life.

It's good Friday and as Jesus approaches his final moments he cries out with a great cry my God my God why have you

forsaken me have you ever wondered about the meaning of these words was Jesus really abandoned by the father on

good Friday is this the moment that he's he's being rejected by the father that

sent him to die for our sins?

What is this really all about?

Well, that's actually how some Christians interpret this line.

They say that, well, at this moment, Christ is taking on all the ugliness

of the sins of all of humanity is just being thrown upon him.

So God the Father looks at Jesus at this moment and sees nothing but sin and he looks at

Jesus with disgust and so he rejects Jesus and Jesus recognizes that he is being

abandoned by the father. Others say that this is a cry of despair that this

that's all darkness for Jesus and he's just sparing so he says why have you forsaken me

father we're gonna see that these words these mysterious words have roots in the

old testament and if you know the Old Testament background to these

words it's so enlightening we're going to see that far from being a cry of

despair Jesus is actually quoting a great line an oldy an old song that all the Jews in the

first century would have known because it comes from their Jewish scriptures and if you

know that background you'll see far from being a cry of despair it's a cry of

great hope a cry of great confidence in the midst of great affliction and

suffering and we're also going to see something else beautiful here we're going to

see a great example for our own lives. When we face

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