In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.

I adore you with profound reverence. I ask you for pardon of my sins

and grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

My mother immaculate.

St. Joseph, my father and Lord.

My guardian angel intercede for me.

Will the death My guardian angel intercede for me. The death of our Lord Jesus on the cross is the culmination of the way of the cross.

He has been journeying towards this.

We have seen him in the Gospel of Luke, for example, as he sets his face towards Jerusalem,

our Lord consciously and freely is moving towards the cross.

So on the cross, you could say he consummates his love for us and brings about the redemption of the world.

And that offering on the cross,

that moment of sacrifice, of self-giving, obedient love,

is made present every day at the consecration of the Mass.

That's what's actually happening at the Mass.

It's that moment of our Lord's oblation, of our Lord's self-giving.

And after our Lord's death, then, what happens?

Well, St. John, who of course is an eyewitness of the events, he tells us in his gospel,

since it was the day of preparation, in order to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross on the Sabbath,

for that Sabbath was a high day, the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might

be taken away. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who had been

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