Don’t Go Into Easter Without Asking Yourself This (w/ Fr. Mike Schmitz)

Mike Schmitz· Host0:00

That's my prayer over this Triduum at the end of this Lent leading into Easter. Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and this is Ascension Presents. You know, all throughout Lent and all during Holy Week, in fact, during the life of Catholics, we often put in front of ourselves the crucifix, right? So it's, it's a cross, of course, but it is the cross with the corpus, right, with the body of Jesus on it. And, and of course, we don't do that because we don't believe that he's... We don't, we're not putting Jesus back on the cross. Like, we know that he's, he's conquered death, he's conquered the grave, he's risen from the dead, he's ascended to heaven. We know that. But we also, we place in front of ourselves the image of Christ and him crucified for a number of reasons. Not to say that he's not, not to say he's still on the cross, he's not, but to remind us of his love for us, to remind us of what he's done for us. I mean, that's so, so remarkable, but also to remind us of his identity and to, and for us to ask the question, do I wanna be associated with that? I love crucifixes. In fact, uh, John Paul II's crucifix that he would have on his crozier, right, the, like the staff he had as a pope, is just like so cool. Here I am saying that's a really cool crucifix. But let's be honest, it's this, it's this image of, of Jesus just hanging. You can see like gravity pulling him down to the ground as he's just hanging from his wrists, hanging from his hands, from the nails, and there's a self-emptying there that's just so... It's powerful. I mean, even though it's death, it's powerful. In a lot of countries or cultures,