Christ on the Cross, Federico Barocci, 1604
The Prado Museum, pmPilgrim picture, 2002

Good Friday, 2009

There can be no resurrection...

if there is no death.

Yet we want to turn our heads,
avert our eyes,
ignore the crowd and
the weeping women.

Even the one holding him as he is brought from the cross-

his mother

experiencing the greatest pain a mother
can bear.

But here we will see something beyond our ability to believe or
even to understand.

Here we will see the start of something new-

a new way of describing the world

a new way of describing God

and a new way of being human.