Editor’s Note: The Seven Last Words, taped at EWTN April 11, will be broadcast on Good Friday at 5 p.m. Eastern, hosted by Father Raymond J. de Souza. At the center of any consideration of the ...

Elí, Elí, lemá sabachtháni? Or, in English, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” This lament of Jesus (Matthew 27:35-44) as he faces death is a quotation from one of King David’s psalms, Psalm ...

From verses 19–21, the psalm turns again to prayer and praise. Verse 22 points toward proclamation and renewed hope, while ...

It is always best to go first for our answers to Jesus himself. He cried out on the cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" It was a human cry, a cry of desperation, springing from his ...

Today, I would like to focus on the forth statement Jesus said while hanging on the cross dying for our sins. “At the sixth hour, darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ...

Belsy Garcia is 27 years old, a college graduate, and a third-year medical student at Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine. She plans to practice family medicine in underserved ...