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 </span><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">are meant to see</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">on that cross not simply a violent display but rather 
<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">our </span>own ugliness</span></b>. <b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">What brought <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Jesus </span>to the cross? Stupidity, anger, 
mistrust, institutional injustice, betrayal</span> </b>of a friend, <b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">denial, 
unspeakable cruelty, scapegoating, fear, etc</span></b>. In other words, <b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">all of <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">our</span>
 dysfunction is revealed on that cross. </span></b><br></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">So
 far so awful. But we can’t stop telling the story at this point. <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Dante 
and every other spiritual master know that the only way up is<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> down.</span> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">When
 we live in convenient darkness, unaware of our sins, we will never make</span></b>
<b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> spiritual progress</span></b>.<b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> So <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">we</span> need the light, however painful it is. But 
then<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> we </span>can begin to rise</span></b>. <br></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">On
 the cross</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">of Jesus, </span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">we</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">meet our own sin</span></b>. <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">But we also meet the divine 
mercy that has taken</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">that sin</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">upon himself in order to swallow <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">it </span>up. </span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">We
</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">have found, in that cross, the way up.</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">We </span>want to hold up <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">this thing 
that was considered too horrible to look at</span>. </span></b></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">We want to embrace and kiss
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