“The Father had a role in the Son’s suffering. We can compare it to a father bringing a son to a dentist. The son has a bad tooth that is infected. That bad tooth causes a toxic condition in the son’s body.  The dentist says, this infection is in the tooth. Your son will experience considerable pain. I may have to remove the tooth; I certainly will have to drill it, and then I shall have to remove that toxic condition.  Now, the human race had a point of infection: our first parents. That sin created a toxic condition in the human race. When the drill is applied by the dentist, does the father say, Do not do that; that hurts my son? Or will the father deliberately allow his son to experience pain? Is there not a cross in the very heart of God?” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Through the Year with Fulton Sheen)