Author:
Joseph of Jesus and Mary
Fourth word on the cross.
My God, my God, why have You abandoned Me?
Dear Lord Jesus, all your friends and the apostles abandoned you, they were afraid except for John your faithful disciple, your holy mother, and some women who accompanied you in your painful passion and remained at the foot of the cross until you breathed your last breath.
Despite this holy company surrounding you, with agonizing voice, you said to the Father; My God, my God, why have You abandoned Me?
Father, I have done your Holy Will, I have given everything that my humanity united to my Divinity could possibly give to my children. I would like to save them all, but I see so much rejection and malice. Father, do not abandon me; I need your consolation at least, to compensate for the indifference of the human race. I love them so much that I am willing to forgive them all, my open arms are here to welcome them, my holy wounds are open to absorb their sinfulness, and as I forgive them, I want to wash them with my Precious Blood and give their souls life again. And yet I feel that they turn their backs to my suffering, they ignore my sacrifice for them, they are being torn away from my soul as they choose to despise me and give themselves to their new father, the devil.
Souls, souls, why have you abandoned Me? What have I done to deserve such disdain? I gave you life, I breathed my breath into your souls so that you could live forever, but now you are inhaling the poison of the world. You will surely die in your sins and be condemned unless you come to my Mercy. I want to forgive you, come to me, and take advantage of my sufferings, because by my holy wounds you are healed.
My God, my God, why have You abandoned Me?
I am not alone, in my soul live all living souls, I encompass them all, I have bought them all at the price of my death, but this death that I am experiencing in my soul is the eternal death of those condemned souls that are casting themselves into hell through their own decision. They refuse the Light that I am, but they accept darkness and death as their lot.
My dear soul, do not abandon me. Come to this fountain of forgiveness, here at the cross, the Throne of Mercy; my crucified body is your only salvation. I am the Lamb of God, being sacrificed for the sins of the whole world. However, I see many souls still doubting after more than two thousand years, do you not know that I am eternal? I am the same Eternal God in the Glory of my Father before creation, as I am here on the cross, making expiation for your sins. I am the same Eternal God, being raised here as when I am raised at the altar by any of my consecrated Priests or when I am exposed in the Blessed Sacrament. I am the true God that you encounter in all the Seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church. I am the Eternal God, the One who opens the gate of Eternity for everyone; I am the Way, the only Way to the Eternal Father.
My God, my God, why have they forsaken me, why have they abandoned the One who never abandons them?
My dear soul, these words are for you. Do not turn away from me. Do not abandon me, do not leave me hanging on the cross suffering for your sins. Repent and remove these nails from my hands and feet, heal my wounds, accept me as your Lord and Saviour, eat of my flesh and drink of my blood in the Holy Eucharist, I am the Lord your God, the bread of angels, the food of your soul, the Bread of Life.
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