This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it! (…) But can we rejoice? Is joy not something like cynicism, like mockery in a world that is full of suffering? Are we redeemed as well? Is the world redeemed? (…)
One of the psalms of Israel, which the church understands as a psalm speaking of the suffering of Jesus Christ and has long prayed at the beginning of each holy mass, goes: “God, grant me justice!” It is the cry of the whole world that is in suffering. Grant me justice, God! He said “Yes.” Christ is risen from the dead!
(Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Easter meditation, 1984)
