The Amazing Cross: a short book of Lenten meditations

Jesus cried out, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Then for three hours nothing was heard. No other utterance was heard from the cross until almost the end. A hush had fallen on the crowd of spectators. No more jeering and mockery was heard. The people realized somehow that there was far more being done than their evil work. The cross had been taken out of their hands. It had become God’s cross. Already they began to feel that God had come down in his anger to execute judgment on a...