We
know that our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful body might be
destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. Romans 6:6
In my last meditation, I spoke about the
way in which Bridget’s passion prayers carefully turn us away from the danger
of viewing Christ’s passion and death as a purely human story. They also, quite carefully steer us away from
the accompanying danger of seeing the Cross as an event that belongs only to
the past, something that happened on a lonely hill in Palestine long ago and
remains there, an interesting story in someone else’s life.
Instead Bridget believes that Christ’s
passion and death are a reality with deep significance for the present moment,
and that Christian discipleship is deeply bound up in responding to Christ’s
call, described in one of the prayers as “enduring in the way of the Cross.”
