Holy Week – thinking about the overwhelming sacrifice that our Lord Jesus willingly gave for us during the Passion – the short final period beginning with his triumphal entry into Jerusalem and ending with his crucifixion and his death on Good Friday.

”No other place displays the griefs of Christ like this, and no other moment at Calvary is so full of agony as when His cry rends the air—”My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” At this moment physical weakness was united with acute mental torture from the shame and ignominy (public shame or disgrace) through which He had to pass; His grief culminated in suffering the spiritual agony beyond all telling that resulted from the departure of His Father’s presence. This was the black midnight of His horror–when He descended the abyss of suffering.” A. Begg