“Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.” – T. S. Eliot

 Saint John Henry Newman:

“How are we to look at things? This is the question which all persons of observation ask themselves…what is the real key, what is the Christian interpretation of this world? What is given us by revelation to estimate and measure this world by? Crucifixion of the Son of God…His Cross has put its due value upon everything which we see, upon all fortunes, all advantages, all ranks, all dignities, all pleasures; upon the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. It has set a price upon the excitements, the rivalries, the hopes, the fears, the desires, the efforts, the triumphs of mortal man. It has given a meaning to the various, shifting course, the trials, the temptations, the sufferings, of this earthly state.…If we will not acknowledge that this world has been made miserable by sin, from the sight of Him on whom our sins were laid, we shall experience it to be miserable by the recoil of those sins upon ourselves.”*

* The Heart of Newman: A Synthesis Arranged by Erich Przywara, S.J., (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2010), 315-316.