Passion

When he devised the first nativity scene, Francis of Assisi wanted to show that God had a share in poverty. In a similar way and in roughly the same period, the five wounds of Christ were the subject of devotion in prayers, poems, meditations, charms, and even guilds.

Jesus’ ministry in the world was, as it were, a betrothal. But the Cross is the consummation of the union of divine nature and human nature.

How have we set ourselves up as enemies of the Cross? In what ways have we avoided the suffering which establishes community?

Sanctification is about finding ourselves within Christ's pilgrimage to the cross.