The Church: 16. The Church of Christ our Saviour: The Meaning of the Cross [A reflection for Holy Week] Introduction If we had witnessed Jesus’ week leading up to his crucifixion, we might have seen it as a week beginning with hope for religious, social, and political change that ended terribly. His execution would have been seen as the result of a hasty and unjust verdict by a corrupt judicial system, as yet one more example of the horrific and violent acts carried out by persons with power, the fickle views of an ignorant mob seething with anger and eager for political change, and even an act of betrayal by a friend. If a video camera had recorded the actual crucifixion, nothing ‘religious’ would have come to mind except, perhaps, the thought that here was an example of the righteous sufferer of the Psalms—the problem of evil itself with no apparent resolution as Jesus breathes his last in utter agony on a Roman cross just a short distance from the Temple of God in Jeru