Kevin O’Brien, SJ, explains that the Third Week of the Spiritual Exercises is an extended meditation on the passion, suffering, and death of Jesus Christ. This week can be difficult, because we are accompanying our friend Jesus Christ whom we have gotten to know throughout the Exercises, through our days of prayer. We are accompanying our Lord in suffering and in death.
But we are not to inflict amnesia on ourselves, because we know as Christians that the shadows of Good Friday will yield to the dawn of Easter morning. And so the suffering and death of Jesus must always be remembered and lived in context of the hope that springs eternal, the hope of Easter morning.
This video is part of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure, Week 7. If you’re receiving this via e-mail, click through to watch the video Accompanying Jesus in His Passion and Death.
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“We do not run from the Lord in His suffering but be with Him with great compassion.” Thank you so very much for this incredibly powerful message.
In a way the Risen Christ accompanies us as we are witnessing Jesus’s passion…
I appreciate the message that at the end of the Passion and Death of Christ there is Resurrection, that hope is at the end of it all, that we have a very great chance of spending eternity with Christ, His Father and the Holy Spirit. I have to learn how to carry my own cross to my end which is forgiveness of my sins, and then my hope will be rewarded with my own Resurrection in the Trinity. I keep being reminded how the sun is always shining, no matter night, bad weather, horrific upheaval. Hope is there. The Resurrection is there. Jesus is there. And I can be there. My gratitude is boundless.