Luis Alberto Hernández as Jesús in the background with 15-year-old son Gael Romero as Juan and 19-year-old Rita García as María, the mother of God during the Live Stations of the Cross at ...

The cross was not simply torture, humiliation and shame; it was also total and abject helplessness. Jesus on the cross was the poorest man in the world.

Each Easter we see many images of Jesus on the cross – inevitably wearing a loincloth. But the historical evidence shows victims of crucifixion were fully naked to maximise shame as well as pain.

Even more striking is that Christ allowed himself to be helped on his way to Calvary. In the Fifth Station, Jesus allows Simon of Cyrene to help him carry the cross; and in the Sixth Station, he ...

Dismas tells Jesus to “remember me when you come into your kingdom,” while he is dying on his own cross, to which Jesus replies: “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise ...