Who takes up the Cross? We live in an age of fission: the atom was split; the mind was split between the superego and the id; husband and wife were split, and so are the East and the West. Those things which should have been one were torn asunder, and if the Seamless Robe could be found, perhaps even that would be rent. But the greatest divorce of all is the separation of what was meant to be one: Christ and the Cross. Only Christ on the Cross reconciles that shattering contradiction of life symbolized by the upright bar, and death symbolized by the horizontal bar. The Cross is the yes of God meeting the no of man. Christ alone pulls them both together by making death the stepping stone to life. In this hour, however, the Cross and Christ have been divorced, and new partners come forward for each. ~ Fulton J. Sheen, Christ and the Cross, January 15, 1966 (Bishop Sheen Writes). GCStevenson
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