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A Walk with Jesus: Liturgical Improvisation as Resistance

A Good Friday ecumenical procession demonstrated that following the cross is political, a sign that God’s power is made perfect in weakness.

The Generosity, Courage, and Foolishness of the Cross

It is tempting to offer another gospel, an easier one one without the cross. But there God reconciles the world to himself, not counting our trespasses against us.

Holy Week, Human Failure, and What We Learn from History

Human failure, soberly appreciated, reveals the faithfulness of God. Even in pitch-black darkness, divine generativity and grace, mysterious and uncategorizable, still go on.

A Catena on the Cross

In her 2017 The Cross: History, Art, and Controversy, Robin Jenson notes that among the memorials of the World Trade Center attacks is a...

A Bronze Serpent Processional Cross

Yes, that’s a snake. A bronze serpent, actually — you know the story — set aloft on steel, which serves as the new Lenten...

From Bethlehem, a New Primatial Cross

A gift from the Diocese of Southeast Florida.

Embracing the Cross of Christ

We must embrace the cross, though it may sound as though we Christians glory in weakness, cruelty, suffering, and death.

Humble King of Kings

As the king of all, Jesus could have come down from the cross, as the bystanders dared him to do.

Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do

While with his tongue the Suffering Servant made “intercession for transgressors” (Isa. 53:12), with torn flesh he made atonement for those who bruised him.

Cæli enarrant: Thorns, Cross, Crucifixion

Until our own end, Christ’s Passion remains the singular source of salvation and holiness — in the sacraments, and in our love of him by acts of penance, reparation, and solidarity.

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