The Church teaches that Jesus Christ is fully human and fully divine.
That teaching is not immediately understood clearly and needs further reflection.
Throughout the history of the Church, Councils have been convened to clarify this teaching.
Heresies and schisms have also divided the Church over this teaching.
The question or problem is the tendency to propagate one nature over the other.
But in the 1st reading, St. Paul states clearly that Jesus is the Son of God, hence stating that Jesus is divine.
Yet St. Paul also states that Jesus died and rose from the dead.
That means that Jesus is also human and that He suffered pain and death as a human being.
But He rose from the dead to prove that He is also divine.
It is for us to understand this as we journey on in life with this belief.
The Cross is the sign in which we know that Jesus suffered and hence we are able to unite our sufferings with His.
Yet the same Cross is also the sign that Jesus died to save us from our sins and rose to conquer death and sin.
Let us continue to contemplate the Cross of Christ and may we come to have a deep conviction of who Jesus is.