Catholic Wisdom

"He might have chosen to delay His sufferings until that hour when His Father's and His own will made Him to be the sacrifice for sin. But He chose to do otherwise, and in this way He becomes a lesson for us who are His disciples. He calls upon us, His brethren, as we are in Him as He is in the Father, to show that we really are what we have been made by baptism, to follow His pattern by renouncing the world while in the world and living as in the presence of God."

—Saint John Henry Newman, Sermon.