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The 7 Last Words and the Nicene Creed: ‘Father, Into Your Hands I Commend My Spirit’

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The sixth words Christ utters from the cross brings us to the death of the Lord Jesus, crucified for our sake.

Editor’s Note: For more than 20 years, Father Raymond de Souza has preached the “Seven Last Words” devotion, a traditional meditation on the seven times Jesus speaks from the cross on Good Friday. Made famous in recent times by the Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, the meditations are usually organized around a particular theme. For 2025, Father de Souza chose the Nicene Creed as his theme, as the Catholic Church marks this year the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. This first of seven meditations was preached at Holy Cross parish in Kemptville, Ontario, where Father de Souza is the pastor. The first five parts are here, here, here, here and here.

It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, while the sun’s light failed; and the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, ‘Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit!’ And having said this, he breathed his last. Now when the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God, and said, ‘Certainly this man was innocent!’ And all the multitudes who assembled to see the sight, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts” (Luke 23:44-48).


The sixth word from the cross brings us to the death of the Lord Jesus, crucified for our sake.

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