Stigmata
“Why her?”
“Why him?” Father MacReady says quietly. “We don’t know why God gave us His only son, to die for our own sins. And we don’t know why God lets some people experience the Passion of Christ when others can’t even understand it.”
“Passion,” Mariah spits out. “Ecstasy. Whoever came up with these names didn’t go through it”.
“Passion comes from the Latin passio. ‘To suffer’.”
Mariah turns away from Father MacReady’s earnest convictions. Passion. She repeats the word softly to herself, and thinks of Ian, of Colin, of Faith, wondering if all love - earthly or divine - is certain to hurt.
