"Hello again from Calais, especially this Lent season, looking forward towards Good Friday first and then afterwards, resurrection and Easter. 

I'm thinking a lot about one particular person, one character in this story, that's Joseph of Arimathea.  I think some of you might remember him. He's the one that after Jesus died, went and asked the authorities for Jesus' body. So he used the kind of influence he had. He couldn't stop the, the crucifixion,but he, he took the body and he took Jesus' body and put it into the tomb that was meant for him. 

It was prepared for him, and it was something precious and personal. 

So thinking of Joseph of Arimathea, there's this idea of christusträger, I don't know if you've heard of this Christ bearer, Christ carrier, because I imagine that at a certain moment, Joseph of Arimathea was there. He might have carried the body of Christ. 

Can you imagine this, this honour? 

But this, the dead body of Jesus, must have been so powerful and so shocking. I had, I honestly, one of the more, the strongest spiritual experiences of my life. When I was a, I was a volunteer in Maria Skobtsova house and a mother, you know, that I, I knew came home with, after trying to cross the English Channel without being out for, I don't know, 48 hours, and was two little girls, you can imagine them staying in the dunes and cold and tired. So they came back exhausted to the, they, you know, knocked on the door. And the mother, she asked me, the littlest girl had fallen asleep. And she asked me if I would carry this girl in my arms. 

And I can't describe to you, for me, what it was, I don't think even, kind of a mystical experience, too, because I really, I felt like I was carrying the body of Jesus. 

Like it was such an honour that this woman asked me, you know, I, I took her upstairs and, you know, laid her down to, to sleep to get some rest. 

And I, for me, I think it was such a gift too, because ever since becoming a father, after this has been, you know, the best moments are when I hold my son in my arms and imagine it. It's Jesus, you know, I think, and that's what Jesus is calling us all to, is to see every person, especially those, you know, tired and excluded, and abreast to see them as Jesus. And that's what Joseph of Arimathea did. And that, I think it's what we can do together. So I really want to ask you to pray, to continue to remember the people that continue to die at the UK French border."

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