'When I survey the wondrous cross' A Sermon for Good Friday
by Sr Ann Catherine Swailes o.p.
'When I survey the wondrous cross', we have just sung, as we sing, year by year, in one of the best known and best loved, of all English Passiontide hymns. It is so familiar indeed, that perhaps we rarely stop to consider the oddity of that first line, but it is odd, to say the least. Of course, the one who hung on the Cross is wondrous, with a wonder beyond human words, the fairest of the children of men and the image of the invisible God. But the Cross? How can anyone talk of a barbaric means of execution as “wondrous”?
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