"In
every century, in this century, in the next century, the Passion is what it was
in the first century, when it occurred; a thing stared at by a crowd. It
remains a tragedy of the people; a crime of the people; a consolation of the
people; but never merely a thing of the period. And its vitality comes from the
very things that its foes find a scandal and a stumbling block; from its
dogmatism and from its dreadfulness. It lives, because it involves the
staggering story of the Creator truly groaning and travailing with his
Creation; and the highest thing thinkable passing through some nadir of the
lowest curve of the cosmos. And it lives, because the very blast from this
black cloud of death comes upon the world as a wind of everlasting life; by
which all things wake and are alive.” —G.K. Chesterton, The Way of the Cross
(1936)
The
image accompanying this post is Christ Carrying the Cross, by Hieronymus
Bosch (c.1450–1516)
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