[Question:]{.underline} Did the Father and the Holy Ghost suffer like Jesus did on the Cross?
[Answer:]{.underline} It is impossible for God to suffer in His divine nature. For his Divinity is immutable and in the all perfect and all happy possession of Itself. The only way that God could possible suffer is by taking to himself a finite, limited, changeable created nature. God the Son did this in the mystery of the Incarnation, and from that moment on until His death upon the Cross He was able to suffer in His human nature. He cannot, however, suffer now in His human nature, since it is now glorified in heaven. However, the Father and the Holy Ghost at no time took to themselves a created, human nature. Consequently, they could not suffer, and never did suffer. Here lies the mystery of the Redemption. It was in order to be able to pay the debt of our sins with true, human suffering that the Son of God was made man.
When we speak of God suffering on account of the sins of men, we speak of the sufferings of God the Son in His human nature, paying the debt of our sins. If this is said of the Godhead, it is meant improperly to indicate how great is the offense made to the Divine Majesty by our sins, but not that God actually suffers from them.
Answered by Father Peter Scott, SSPX.