Hello, glory to Jesus Christ. This week is Holy Week, and so I thought instead of publishing an interview,

I would read a meditation from St. Thomas Aquinas about the death of Christ.

My goodness gracious, I love being a Christian, and I'm in love with Jesus Christ,

and I think it might be helpful just to pause and to acknowledge that Jesus Christ,

the second person of the Blessed Trinity, went to the cross, suffered unimaginable pain,

died, went into Hades, rose from the dead. Why? Because he loves us. And it's important that

we recognize that, but I think it's important that we go beyond.

Beyond it being merely a generic theological truth. It is true that Jesus Christ, by his life, death, and resurrection saved humanity, but it's also true that he saved you personally, me personally. And this is really difficult to

wrap our heads around. How is it that God knows us individually, that he knows the number of hairs

on your head and on my head, that he doesn't just love us the way a man might love a hive of bees.

You know, he doesn't know them individually. He just knows them as a kind

of conglomerate. But this is what Christianity teaches. And I've often said, it's not that

Christianity is too hard to believe. I think we've got very good arguments for the existence of God,

the historicity of the New Testament, say, for the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

I think often it's that Christianity is not too hard to believe, but it's too good to believe.

Before I get into this meditation from St. Thomas Aquinas, I want to share with you a quotation

that drives this home. It's from Father Jean de Elbe from the excellent

book I believe in love, which I highly recommend. Here's what he had to say. I assure you, we are

bathed in love and mercy. We each have a father, a brother, a friend, a spouse of our soul, center and king of our hearts,

Redeemer and Savior, bent down over us, over our weakness and our impotence like that of little children,

with an inexpressible gentleness, watching over us like the apple of his eye, who said, I will have

mercy and not sacrifice. A Jesus haunted by the desire to save us by all means, who has opened

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