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Written by Kris McGregor, a contemporary writer.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux wrote: “The cross is the school of love. It is there we learn to love, not in word or feeling only, but in the laying down of self.” This is what Lent has prepared us for. To gaze upon the cross not as a symbol of defeat, but of the deepest victory. To allow it to speak to our wounds, our questions, and our hopes. To find ourselves there – not as spectators, but as those Christ carried with him…We do not end at the cross—but we must go through it. Resurrection is coming, but it is only understood in the light of the Passion.

And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross! [Philippians 2:8]