The sobering details of the Passion story point out to us how easy it is for any one of us to sacrifice our integrity and be unfaithful. In the story of Jesus’ passion, there is plenty of infidelity to go around. But there is also evidence of faithful love: in women who followed and supported Jesus all the way to the place called the Skull; in Simon Cyrene, a reluctant bystander from the country who helped Jesus carry the cross; in the centurion who stood guard over Jesus and declared after Jesus died: “Clearly this man was the Son of God!”; in Joseph of Arimathea who arranged to give Jesus a proper burial. The passion story is all about faithful love in the midst of human suffering.