A former archbishop of Canterbury on reclaiming the human world through compassion and absolution.

We should sit with the suffering and the abandonment of the cross, with the rejection of all that Jesus taught which that cross implies. We should sit with death, with such a death.

I propose that a particularly relevant image for our time is the helplessness of Jesus on the cross. The cross was not simply torture, humiliation and shame; it was also total and abject helplessness.

God’s will was served just as much by the brutal execution of Jesus on the cross at Calvary as by the deliverance of Daniel from the lions’ den.

Editor’s Note: For more than 20 years, Father Raymond de Souza has preached the Seven Last Words devotion, a traditional meditation on the seven times Jesus speaks from the Cross on Good Friday.

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