Title: About the sixth hour
The Savior had no good thing, no help, facing death on the cross:
The final struggle with sin was fought in darkness, to give evil full advantage; the narcotic turned down; the Lamb silent and immobile; twelve legions of angels held back.
The searing pain was at its apex.
But the gates of hell trembled, as the last ebb of life drained from the Crucified, at that final shout of victory for the death that brought us eternal life.
