mystics said is true, Crux probat omnia—“The cross
legitimates/proves/uses everything.” (Stay with this Christian
maxim until it make sense to you.)
I want to love you in this form, Brother Jesus. I need to love you
in this way, or I will never be free or happy in this world.
You and I, Brother Jesus, we are the same.*1 Mary Beth Ingham, Scotus for Dunces (St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute, 2003),
75ff.
*2 René Girard, The Girard Reader, ed. James G. Williams (New York: Crossroad, 1996).