5th Sorrowful: The Crucifixion and Death of Our Lord

He is nailed to the wood and lifted up. He forgives the men who drive the nails. He gives his mother to the disciple, and the disciple to his mother. He cries out, thirsts, and at last says: it is finished. The veil of the temple tears. We meditate on the love that loves to the end, and on the silence of a world that has just been redeemed and does not yet know it.