Saint Gertrude Parish - Lasne

Brothers and sisters, here is the road, the path to our salvation, our rebirth, and our resurrection: to look upon Jesus crucified. From this vantage point, we can see our lives and the history of our peoples in a new light. For from the Cross of Christ, we learn love, not hatred; we learn compassion, not indifference; we learn forgiveness, not revenge. The open arms of Jesus are the embrace of tenderness with which God desires to welcome us. And they show us the fraternity we are called to live among ourselves and with everyone. They show us the way, the Christian way: not the way of imposition and coercion, of power and self-importance, never the way that brandishes the cross of Christ against other brothers and sisters for whom he gave his life! The way of Jesus, the way of salvation, is different: it is the way of humble, freely given, and universal love, without "ifs" or "buts."