Eve of Holy Cross: Psalms 46, 87; I Kings 8:22-30; Ephesians 2:11-22
“The Cross” is probably the most universal and controversial of symbols. It stands not just for the wood of the Cross, but the whole event of Jesus’s suffering and crucifixion. How can violence bring Peace? I think it is that somehow Jesus’s suffering shows up the callous emptiness of political violence for what it is … and thus strips it of its power, leaving it ‘naked’. Gandhi did that with the violent British Raj. Martin Luther King did it with the violent racism of the American south. “The Cross” is still the often necessary, courageous and authentic way to Peace.
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