ROME – In a service Friday commemorating Jesus’s suffering and death on the cross, papal preacher Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa said his sacrifice was for everyone, no exception, and was illustrative of God’s true power, found not in might, but in loving sacrifice.
Speaking during a Good Friday Passion service in St Peter’s Basilica, Cantalamessa, 89, noted how Jesus in the Gospels told his disciples, “Come to me, all you who labour and are burdened, and I will give you rest.”
This invitation is ironic, he said, as Jesus throughout his ministry was rejected, mocked, and finally, condemned to death.
