Holy Week – Monday, March 29
Isaiah 42:1-7 Thus says God: “I formed you, and set you as a covenant of the people, a light for the nations, to open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from confinement, and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.”
| This is one
way the symbol of a suffering God can help: by signaling that the mystery of
God is here in solidarity with those who suffer. In the midst of the isolation
of suffering the presence of divine compassion as companion to the pain
transforms the suffering, not mitigating its evil but bringing an inexplicable
consolation and comfort. - She Who Is, Elizabeth Johnson, (Herder & Herder, 1993), p. 26 |
