Paradox of love... (Easter Friday)

"We know that God makes all things work together

for the good of those who love him, who have been called

according to his decree." - Romans 8:28

"By a beautiful paradox of Divine love,

God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life.

We have slain Him; we have nailed Him there and crucified Him;

but the Love in His eternal heart could not be extinguished.

He willed to give us the very life we slew;

to give us the very Food we destroyed;

to nourish us with the very Bread we buried,

and the very Blood we poured forth.

He made our very crime into a happy fault;

He turned a Crucifixion into a Redemption;

a Consecration into a Communion;

a death into Life Everlasting."

Archbishop Fulton J Sheen