Albert, here you seem to convey the same idea as Benedict XVI in his interview: The theology of “the suffering Father, who, as Father, inwardly shares the sufferings of the Son.” This theology was contained in the image of the “throne of grace” (also called “throne of mercy”), which spread during the Middle Age in Central and Western Europe as expression of the popular devotion to the Holy Trinity:
“the Father supports the cross and the crucified one, bends lovingly down to him and the two are, as it were, one on the cross. So in a grand and pure way, one perceives there what God’s mercy means, what God’s participation in human suffering means. It is not a matter of a cruel justice, nor of the Father’s fanaticism, but rather of the truth and the reality of creation: the true intimate overcoming of evil that ultimately can be realized only in the suffering of love.”