A kiss on the cross–what a strange thing! Or is it?
For weeks I had noticed a smudge or something on our golden processional cross that stood front and center in the chancel during Lent. But there was this smudge on it. It kind of bothered me: What is that?
But then I looked closer. The smudge on the beautiful golden cross was in the shape of lips. Someone had kissed the cross and left a mark.
What adoration! What devotion! What a remarkable way to mark Lent, Holy Week, the Great Three Days and the glory of Easter!
Or, from the Good Friday liturgy: “Behold the life-giving cross upon which was hung the salvation of the world!”