“Our Lady was human” and so we talk about her. There isn’t enough conversation about our lady. I struggled for a long time with the last words of Jesus, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me.” Even after I learned that it is the first line of Psalm 22 which ends, “he has done it.” Jesus was also human and that was perhaps his greatest gift. Mary is the new Eve and she embraced the cross. I can’t go through any event, even a happy one, without a negative thought. I was born with original sin and she was not but she was human and the devil hates her. So I’m okay with what Francis said. He does stir things up doesn’t he? Makes us have to think.
Many good points - especially the last sentence - far too many will accept what is told them and not bother to question. I like what Glenn Beck says - question boldly; even the existence of God. Because God will stand up to the most intense scrutiny - numerous atheists have been converted by what they learned while trying to disprove His existence.
I wondered much about Jesus' cry, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me.”. My personal belief is that this was the first time that He had tasted/experienced sin. The same sin which separates us from the Father also separated Him from the Father. He had probably not gone a second of His existence without the Presence of the Father ever so clear and suddenly the connection was broken - that probably anguished Him more than the physical torture.
Do you have another slant on it? I'd like to hear it if you do, to add some more fodder for me to mull over.