Father, Forgive Them

It's tempting to listen to the stories of the bible, especially ones like those we will hear today, and think of how much worse they are than us or how evil they are compared to us. But these stories are meant to be warnings of how the same evil we read about can be in our own hearts and it is this evil that leads to the trial, suffering and crucifixion of Jesus, who calls out, "Father, forgive them" because he knows the only way for us to be saved from the evil of our own hearts is for him t...