The voice of the suffering savior, Jesus, can be heard in the prophet Isaiah’s words and the pleading of the psalm (Isaiah 50: 4-9a and Psalm 31: 9-16). We are invited into the agony of our Lord in the extended reading of the story of Jesus’ passion. In the second reading, we who have put on Christ in holy baptism are urged to let the mind of Christ be our own. Lent leads us to this holy moment. Embrace it.