My heart was moved when I saw this Pietà in the Bern Cathedral. A mother and her son. The heartbreak. The meaning perhaps not fully understood in that moment.
“For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent; But if they would not repent they must suffer even as I; which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit—and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink—nevertheless, glory be to the Father, and I partook and finished my preparations unto the children of men” (D&C 19:16-19).
I remembered seeing these Roman nails when we visited Saalburg a few weeks ago. I am grateful he suffered, bled and died for ME. Oh, what a gift!
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