The Fifth Sorrowful Mystery – The Crucifixion and Death of our Lord
This mystery of the Rosary invites us to contemplate a profound and difficult answer to this perennial question that is sketched out for us in the person of Christ who, out of an unfathomable love, shares in our suffering through the mystery of the Cross. As Pope John Paul II said, Man “often puts this question [concerning suffering and evil] to God, and to Christ, [and] he cannot help noticing that the one to whom he puts the question is himself suffering and wishes to answer him from the Cross, from the heart of his own suffering. Nevertheless, it often takes time, even a long time, for this answer to begin to be interiorly perceived. For Christ does not answer directly and he does not answer in the abstract this human questioning about the meaning of suffering. Man hears Christ’s saving answer as he himself gradually becomes a sharer in the sufferings of Christ”.