Letting go of the symbol of the
cross may make some sense on a rational level. But on a holistic level its
value as a symbol is immense. Its power is its ability to embrace and thereby
allow us into the full reality of suffering. Suffering cannot be confined to
rationality. The experience of suffering makes no rational sense. The power of
the cross as a symbol is that it helps us locate our common predicament in the
world—that we experience suffering—in a common experience of God. God is so
incarnate with us that God even experiences that which we experience in all its
reality. God stands in solidarity with us, born out of love for us.
Kathleen T. Talvacchia
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