How the Roman Cross Seeded a Garden
from Echoes for Angela Hosted by Ryan MacLean
Season 3, Episode 14 On the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Angela gets a tour through one of Christianity’s strangest and most beautiful reversals: how did an instrument designed to end a life become the center of a living communion almost two thousand years later? Jesus gives us a garden to understand it. The Father is the gardener, Jesus is the true Vine, the Holy Spirit teaches and reminds, and we are branches learning to abide, grow, be pruned, and bear fruit. Along the way, we meet Jean Donovan and St. Isaac Jogues, explore why repetition forms us, discover how words and memories travel through history, and even use neuroscience, dynamical systems, worldlines, and light cones to ask how the past remains accessible without confusing science with theology. At the center is the Eucharist: one Christ, one sacrifice, received across countless places and times. We inherit what others loved enough to give us—and the fruit we bear today can become someone else’s seed tomorrow. One Cross. Many people. A living garden. Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22759196 Zenodo SkibidiScience Repository: https://zenodo.org/communities/skibidiscience/
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