Fr. Anthony Gramlich reflects on one of the deepest mysteries of our faith: how the Passion of Jesus was both the worst and the greatest moment of His earthly life. From a human standpoint, it was agony, humiliation, and death. From a divine standpoint, it was perfect love poured out — the very reason He came into the world. As Archbishop Fulton Sheen said, Jesus is the only person ever born with the mission to die, and to die for us.

Turn to any page of St. Faustina's Diary, and you'll find spiritual gems. Like this one: My soul has often cried out after God, as a little child who cries as loudly as he can when his mother covers her face and he cannot recognize her. (116)

Father Anthony encourages us to use the story of Noah’s ark as an example of how we all need an Ark, a place of refuge, for prayer and contemplation during tumultuous times.