5 February 2020

Cross the Tree to Heaven

This is the Son of the carpenter, who skillfully made his Cross a bridge
over Sheol—Sheol that swallows up all—and brought over mankind into
the dwelling of life.

And because it was through the tree that mankind had fallen into Sheol, so
upon the tree they passed over into the dwelling of life. Through the tree in
which bitterness was tasted, through it also sweetness was tasted; so that
we might learn of him that among the creatures nothing resists Him.

Glory be to you, who laid your Cross as a bridge over death, that souls
might pass over on it from the dwelling of the dead to the dwelling of life!

                                                   –St. Ephrem the Syrian, Homily on Our Lord,

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