Good Friday

"Who is not carried away to hope and confidence in prayer, when he looks on the crucifix and sees how Our Lord hangs there, the head bent as though to kiss, the arms outstretched in an embrace, the hands pierced to give, the side opened to love, the feet nailed to remain with us." -St. Bernard

"'Come, my dove, in the clefts of the rock' (Cant. ii. 14) It is in the wounds of Christ the Church builds its nest and waits, for it is in the Passion of Our Lord that she places her hope of salvation." - St. Thomas Aquinas: De Humanitate Christi