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<table style="font-size:13px;min-width:100%;border-collapse:initial" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr id="gmail-m_-6381872150449834363layout-row14889" class="gmail-m_-6381872150449834363layout gmail-m_-6381872150449834363layout-row gmail-m_-6381872150449834363widget gmail-m_-6381872150449834363_widget_html gmail-m_-6381872150449834363style14889" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><td id="gmail-m_-6381872150449834363layout-row-padding14889" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);padding:30px 30px 0px" valign="top"><table style="font-size:13px;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td id="gmail-m_-6381872150449834363html_div14502" width="590" align="left"> <p style="margin:0px;outline:medium none;padding:0px;color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5">Friends,<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>
in today's Gospel Jesus predicts his being handed over to men, that is,
his crucifixion. </b></span>Here is the point I want to make: we are meant to see
on that cross our own ugliness. <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>What brings </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Jesus</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>to the cross?
Stupidity, anger, mistrust, institutional injustice, betrayal, denial,
unspeakable cruelty, fear. </b></span>St. Peter puts it with disquieting
laconicism: the author of Life came and you killed him. In the light of
the cross, <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>all of the vermin are revealed</b></span>. This is why we speak of the
cross as God's judgment on the world.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;outline:medium none;padding:0px;color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5"> </p>
<p style="margin:0px;outline:medium none;padding:0px;color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5">So
far so awful. But we can't stop telling the story at this point. Dante
and every other spiritual master know that the only way up is down. <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>When
we live unaware of our sins, we will never make </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>spiritual progress. So
we need the light, however <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">painful</span> it is. Then we can begin to rise.
</b></span>Once Dante makes it all the way to the center of Hell, he suddenly finds
himself climbing out.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;outline:medium none;padding:0px;color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5"> </p>
<p style="margin:0px;outline:medium none;padding:0px;color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>On
the cross of</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Jesus,</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>we meet our own sin</b></span>. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>But we also meet the divine
mercy which has taken </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>that sin </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>upon himself in order to swallow<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> it</span> up.</b></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br> <table style="border-top:1px solid #d3d4de">
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