La Pasion De Cristo May 2026

The Passion narrative offers a God who does not remain distant from agony but enters into it fully. As the theologian Fleming Rutledge wrote, "The cross is the point where God takes the worst thing humanity can do—violence, injustice, hatred—and turns it into the best thing: forgiveness and life."

It hurts to watch. It always has. That, perhaps, is the point. La Pasion de Cristo

For two millennia, the final twelve hours of the life of Jesus of Nazareth have been the theological epicenter of Christianity. It is a narrative known as The Passion—derived from the Latin pati (to suffer)—a chronicle of betrayal, abandonment, scourging, and crucifixion. While the Gospels offer a relatively terse account of these events, the human imagination has never been able to leave them alone. The Passion narrative offers a God who does