The Passion Reveals the Heart

Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelistc, Francesco di Vannuccio; 1387-88

“[T]HE history of His Passion will reveal to us many sad secrets of the human heart and its perverse inclinations; for what happened in Jerusalem happens also in every sinner’s heart. His heart, according to the saying of St. Paul, is a Calvary, where Jesus is crucified. There is the same ingratitude, the same blindness, the same wild madness, with this difference: that the sinner who is enlightened by faith, knows Him whom he crucifies; whereas the Jews, as the same apostle tells us, knew not the Lord of glory.”

— Dom Prosper Guéranger, “Passion Sunday,” The Liturgical Year

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