I let you bleed!

What will I say on the day when I stand before Him whom I have offended – knowing that He is the Son of God – when my sins and betrayals of my life will accuse me? Yet this Cross will be here, where He hung for me in agony, where He shed this drop of blood for me, where for my sake He said: “Father, forgive him!” Oh Jesus, my God, from now on grant me to experience that it was I who made You bleed!

(Cardinal Charles Journet /1891–1975/, The Seven Words of Christ on the Cross)