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

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Have you ever wondered what these words mean,

these words that Jesus uttered from the cross on Good Friday?

Did he really think he was abandoned by the Father? Is there a division within the Holy

Trinity? I mean I thought the Bible says the Father and the Son are one so what

did Jesus mean when he cried out my God my God why has thou forsaken me that's what we're going to look at in today's

episode I want to bring us right into Mark's gospel into Mark's presentation of the scene

and one of the things we're going to discover is that

Jesus is using an ancient rabbinic teaching method here where the ancient

rabbis would often quote a line from a particular passage in the Old Testament Hebrew scriptures,

and that line that they were quoting was meant to bring to mind the larger context of that

passage or the larger story in which we find that line.

It's kind of like this.

If you asked me, hey Edwards Three, what's your favorite band?

And I told you, oh, I can't tell you my favorite band,

but I can tell you, it's a beautiful day. And I can't tell you it's a beautiful day and I can't tell you my favorite band but

I still haven't found what I'm looking for and I'm going to keep talking this way

with or without you for those of you that know the band, you too and Bono, you know what I'm talking about.

I'm quoting key lines from some of their most famous songs and those little lines are bringing to mind the larger context of those songs and this

band, You Too. Well, in a similar way, that's what the ancient rabbis were doing.

The ancient rabbis would quote a certain line from the Hebrew scriptures

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