Head of the UGCC on Good Friday: On the Calvary of human suffering, the Lord built His own cross

The preacher notes that on this day we are witnessing the voluntary suffering, death and burial of the incarnate God.

Today, these days, we see our loving God personally present in every person who has fallen victim to human trafficking, in those who have been betrayed by their closest friends, in the suffering of those who have been unjustly condemned by a corrupt court, in the eyes and pain of the mother who lost her son at the front.  Even today, he is tortured, abused in the face of our warriors and political prisoners, who are now in hostile captivity.

Some might ask: Why is He present there?  Is He present and just passively watching the tormented person?  “Today, facing the crucified Savior, we have the answer to that question as well.  He is present there, in the thickets of this Good Friday, in the depths of the suffering of the modern man, in order to give him Easter, sunrise, light, life.  For there, on Calvary of the sufferings of the modern man, He built His own cross,” believes the spiritual leader of the Ukrainians.

Every human suffering, according to His Beatitude Sviatoslav, today, on Good Friday, finds its meaning.

Someone asks: how can we find the power when we are powerless, how can we see the light when it seems to us that we are in complete darkness?  How can we find the light of Easter when my personal pain and suffering blinds me?  "And here Jesus Christ Himself tells us: Repent and believe in the Gospel ... Putting today to the tomb our Savior, we proclaim that through repentance and conversion we can enter into life," emphasized the preacher.

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