V. We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you. R. Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world!
To strip someone in public means to degrade that person, to take away that person's dignity. That is what they do to Jesus. And that continues to be done to so many who are deprived of everything they have. Jesus, deprived of everything, placed his trust in God alone. God is on his side.
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We find your Son, stripped of everything, among the impoverished people of the world. Father, in those who possess nothing, create new, generous, and loving persons, detached from material things. Teach us to share in solidarity what we have.