tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876502085465766394.post3373433217576302747..comments2024-01-17T03:08:25.317-06:00Comments on The Progressive Catholic Voice: Crucifixion Helps Make Meaning of Pain in Church and WorldPCV Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12519134580470262558noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876502085465766394.post-67853719251539721982011-04-22T22:56:14.890-05:002011-04-22T22:56:14.890-05:00I appreciate your reflection on the cross, Jamie, ...I appreciate your reflection on the cross, Jamie, as I do finding your work again after some years. I get caught up a bit (see my evening's blog-post) in wishing that the church didn't go 180 in the other direction from the kind of guilt-tripping nightmare that you reference above, and coat the cross in candy, bunnies, and eggs, making of it another example of our culture's denial of death. <br /><br />How to get both grace, peace, and truth with the cross, without turning the cross into a metaphor? Without making church yet another candy stop on Easter Sunday? There are many crucifixions, like you mention here, like my cinematic hero Father Barry mention in "On the Waterfront," and many responses to those crucifixions. Any explanations that keep the power of Jesus' death and resurrection truthfully intact work for me, I suppose. Bless you this Triduum & Eastertide.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13300596637986884250noreply@blogger.com