Jesus is Placed in the Tomb

The threshold to the truth of sacrifice lies in the question:  "O God, make haste to help me."  Here the rolling away of the stone of the tomb of our empty actions begins.  The Resurrection begins from this aspect of our infinite impotence, which is begging, from this supreme recognition that God alone is powerful, and from the supreme gratitude that He who initiated our existence wants to carry it to fulfillment.  There is nothign more expressive, universal, Catholic, ecumenical, than a heart made new by the "yes" to Christ, by that hope in Him for which each of us daily takes up the search again, the desire, the asking, the sacrifice of purity.  Always living a peace in the continually revived mortification.

-Msgr. Luigi Giussani