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Fr. Peter turns to the sixth shedding of Christ’s blood — the nailing to the cross. Drawing on St. Bonaventure’s Mystical Vine, he explores the image of Christ as a vine stretched and bound to a trellis, reflecting on his own experience of rescuing an abandoned vine during his novitiate in California. He traces the Old Testament prophecies of the crucifixion — the iron entering into Joseph’s soul, the bronze serpent raised in the desert — and offers a detailed and moving account of what crucifixion actually involved physically, including why Christ was nailed rather than tied, and why the nails pierced his wrists rather than his palms. He closes with St. Gregory the Great’s beautiful insight: that Christ kept his wounds after the resurrection so that they might heal the wounds of Thomas’s doubt — and that those same glorious wounds remain our shelter and consolation today.

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