Some Spiritual Reading Resources on the Cross of Christ and Holy Week

• Ecce Homo! – Behold the Man!, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• The Cross of Christ – the Measure of the World, by John Henry Newman
• Emptied for Our Sake, by Bernard of Clairvaux
• The Cross – the One True Glorification of God, by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI
• Worship at the Cross, by Charles Simpson

• The Throne of Love, by Rupert, Abbot of Deutz 
•  Contemplating Christ’s Passion, by Jeanne Kun
• God Has Reigned from a Tree: Meditations on the Cross of Jesus Christ
• What Happened on the Cross, by the early church fathers

• The Passion of Christ in the Four Gospel Accounts Gospel Texts and Meditations
• Jesus’ Crucifixion: ‘It Is Finished’, by Jeanne Kun
• Freedom from Sin and Death, by Jeanne Kun
• The Seven Last Words of Jesus, reflections and paintings by John Dunne
• Awakened to Eternity series of poems on Christ’s Passion, Death, and Resurrection by Jeanne Kun

• What Happened on the Cross, by John Damascene 
• A Few Drops of Blood Renew the Whole World, by Gregory Nazianzen 
• What We Behold on the Cross, by Augustine 
• Contemplating the Lord’s Passion by Leo the Great

• The Lamb that was Slain by Melito of Sardis
• The Power of the Blood of Christ by John Chrysostom
  By One Death and Resurrection the World Was Saved by Basil
• The Life-giving Cross of Christ by Theodore the Studite
  Let us too glory in the Cross by Augustine

• The Cross of Christ by Leo the Great
• The Body of Christ Gives Life to Those Who Receive It, by Cyril of Alexandria
• The Death of Death by Augustine
• The Good Shepherd gives new life beyond the grave, by Basil of Seleucia

• He Bore Our Pride In His Body on the Cross, by Raniero Cantalamessa 
• The Shedding of Christ’s Blood (meditation on Hebrews 9)
• “It is Finished!” (meditation on John 19)
• Oh, The Cross (an early church hymn)
• When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
• God has Reigned From a Tree(a passion hymn)

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Top image:  The Death of Jesus (La mort de Jésus), by James Tissot, opaque watercolor over graphite, cropped,  1886-1894, Brooklyn Museum. Source from Wikimedia Commons.