sabbatum sanctum

on this holy saturday, food for thought from the cathedral church of the advent:

"Even when we have set the tragedy of the garden and the arrest at its blackest, its bitterest and its starkest, one indelible impression remains; and that is that in it and through it Jesus was always completely in control. He was never the helpless victim [but rather] the willing sacrifice of one who of his own free will laid down his life for his friends.”
- William Barclay, The Mind of Jesus