Jesus takes the cross on his shoulders

Wear and endure

Jesus is charged the transom, where he is to be crucified. Without fighting back, he wears it like the other two defendants. Doesn't that remind us of his earlier enigmatic message:

“Who my disciple, my disciple, wants to be, take his, take up your cross and follow me” (vgl. Mt 16,24)
accept life, the way it is. – Everyone dreams of a beautiful future, of a fulfilling life. But the reality is different for most people. The words from above sound harsh, they admonish us and do not invite us down an easy path. Let's remember the pictures from the newspapers and news. – sisters and brothers, who are persecuted for the sake of their faith, humiliated, to be killed. – Kinder, whose life is taken, before it has really started. - People, who have to live in and with conflicts, which they themselves are not to blame for.