On Good Friday, the world stumbles once again over the dead body of the Convict of Golgotha. Stretched on the cross 2000 years ago, and yet almost a billion people stand by Him every day – celebrating the holy drama. The cross shows that Jesus’ agony, His suffering and death cannot be removed, talked about and forgotten. Jesus is crucified! He sees TOMORROW from the cross, although this tomorrow is stripped of Him today. God is in helplessness and suffering. He cannot be separated from the cross.
“The paradox of the cross consists in this – as the Polish priest, Father Janusz Pasierb writes – that what was supposed to kill, gives life. The Middle Ages created a mystical cross – a green tree full of leaves, bearing the fruit of life – the body of Jesus. It is not only a universal lesson in understanding of the human fate, constantly passing through death to life, but also a practical teaching that a man is not doomed to crawl, but that he can do something even out of the dark layers of his suffering. Mahatma Ghandi, not elsewhere but from the Gospel took his basic idea that the suffering accepted voluntarily can be a method of liberation. The cross teaches us not to suffer, but to WIN”.
Jesus immersed in fear, darkness and uncertainty „throws himself into the embrace of God. He is afraid of death, but also expects a new birth from it.” At the bottom of the fear, He sees the future. He sees eternity as an extensive green landscape.