The Cross – The Greatest Hope of All

A book for Lent and Holy Week by Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell

Jesus calls out from the cross ‘Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?‘ which is the Aramaic for ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

This series of reflections ponders the significance of these words. What does it mean for Jesus to have quoted them, at the very end of his life? What do those words mean for us?