Father Rutler

"Now everything is shut here, and the Passion will be more powerful because the veil of the temple is drawn, and only a cry from the Cross can tear it open. The holy apostles thought themselves bereft of the One they had hoped might be the Messiah. On the Mount of Olives, three of them slept a depressed slumber haunted by anxious confusion. In every generation, varying circumstances have given us the impression of being abandoned by the One who had promised to be with us always. "