As it was his purpose to bring a great many of his sons into glory, it was appropriate that God, for whom everything exists and through whom everything exists, should make perfect, through suffering, the leader who would take them to their salvation. For the one who sanctifies, and the ones who are sanctified, are of the same stock. (Hebrews 2:10-11)
Why does today’s second reading at Mass say that Jesus’s suffering was "appropriate"? The cross was appalling torture and Christ was not only innocent but divine. At first glance it seems whollyinappropriate.
