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Foreign Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars with Renewal and this is the Rosary in Year podcast, where through prayer and meditation, the Rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world. The Rosary in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. This is day 43. To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a year, visit ascensionpress.comrosaryina year or text RIY to 33 777. You'll get an outline of how we're going to pray each month, and it's a great way to track your progress. The best place to listen to the Podcast in the Ascension app. There are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full rosary with myself and other friars. No matter what app you're listening in, remember to tap, follow or subscribe for your daily notifications. The fifth sorrowful mystery is the crucifixion Luke, chapter 23, verses 33 through 46 and when they came to the place which is called the skull, there they crucified him and the criminals, one on the right and one on the left. And Jesus said, father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And they cast lots to divide his garments. And the people stood by watching. But the rulers scoffed at him, saying, he saved others. Let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen one. The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him vinegar and saying, if you are the King of the Jews, save yourself. There was also an inscription over him, this is the King of the Jews. One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us. But the other rebuked him, saying, do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds. But this man has done nothing wrong. And he said, jesus, remember me when you come in your kingly power. And he said to him, truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise. It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, while the sun's light failed and the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, father, into your hands I commit my Spirit. And having said this, he breathed his last. Today, as we meditate on our Lord's Crucifixion, I'm going to highlight two details of our Lord's crucifixion. The first I'm going to take from Matthew and Mark's account. Matthew and Mark both have Jesus praying the opening lines of Psalm 22. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? And as you may already be expecting, my meditation reflection here is going to come from Pope Benedict. He writes, jesus is praying the great psalm of suffering Israel, and so he's taken upon himself all the tribulation, not just of Israel, but of all those in this world who suffer from God's concealment. My brothers and sisters, how many of you who are listening here resonate with this experience, experiencing what is perceived as God's concealment? My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Pope Benedict continues. He brings the world's anguished cry at God's absence before the heart of God himself. He takes their cry, their anguish, all their helplessness upon himself, and in so doing, he transforms it. My brothers and sisters, he takes your cry, your anguish, your helplessness upon himself and transforms it. This is so important. The cry of extreme anguish is at the same time the certainty of an answer from God, the certainty of salvation not only for Jesus himself, but for many my brothers and sisters. In the crucifixion of our Lord, in his praying of Psalm 22, his cry to the Father, we have the certainty of an answer from God that he.