Here is part of today’s Gospel, from St Matthew: ‘And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day.”’

The promise of resurrection is always there when Jesus speaks of the cross. His death, we know, is not the end, though it seemed so to those who were there and witnessed it. For the crosses in our own lives, it can sometimes take a massive act of trust that resurrection will come, though we do not know how.

May we launch out on the ocean of trust in God this day – and may He bless you in it.