Anna Maria Canopi, Patì per noi. Passione di Gesù secondo Matteo e Via Crucisa (Universale Economica Piemme, Casale Monferrato, 1999), pp. 54-55

If we look at he whom we pierced and if his passion becomes the mystery of our lives – because we recognise that he loved us and gave himself for us – in all the situations of our existences we experience love, which is stronger than death. And in front of every sepulchre we wait for a miracle, we wait for the incredible, for the humanly impossible; we wait with an indestructible hope, for what really takes place – resurrection.

This is not death; it is the definitive event, because Jesus with his total adherence to the will of the Father, in his total self-giving, made Life triumph for all men.

The experience of the passion of Christ in every situation of our existences should really lead us to believe more in the power of God. Let us think of what the angel said to Mary when the Word was made flesh: “Nothing is impossible for God”. Now, for us, under the cross of Jesus who breathed his last, near the sepulchre where the lifeless body of Jesus was laid, those certain words still sound out: “Nothing is impossible for God”.

The resurrection is the accomplished Word of truth; it was accomplished in Jesus, and it is accomplished in our lives.

Where it seems to us that there is death without hope, in so many desolate human situations, we must always say: “Nothing is impossible for God”. Then we see that the miracle of life is accomplished. And it is always the Easter of resurrection.