Pondering on the passion of Christ convince what kind of love God has given to us. God’s love is witnessed by the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. On this Good Friday, we as refugees are encouraged to journey together with Jesus toward Calvary. Because life doesn’t end with sacrifices and death, but with the resurrection.

Sometimes, we think that our sacrifices are beyond measure, but Jesus’ sacrifices for us are beyond our thinking. His passion is a hope for our miserable lives as refugees. He experienced suffering more than us. And yet embraced suffering until the end with love. As for this, with a little suffering that we have, we must embrace it with love. So that we will reach the fullness of life, which is resurrection.

“It is love ‘to the end’ that confers on Christ’s sacrifice its value as redemption and reparation, as atonement and satisfaction. He knew and loved us all when he offered his life. Now the love of Christ controls us, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died. No man, not even the holiest, was ever able to take himself the sins of all men and offer himself as a sacrifice for all. The existence in Christ of the divine person of the Son, who at once surpasses and embraces all human persons, and constitutes himself as the Head of all mankind, makes possible his redemptive sacrifice for all” (CCC,616)