Meditating on the Passion of Christ is like looking at a diamond which sparkles and shines from whichever way we examine it. On the cross, Jesus manifested the supreme possession of virtue in all its manifold brilliance. Recently, I was reading Aristotle’s description of the magnanimous man in his Nicomachean Ethics, and it struck me that the virtue of magnanimity applies supremely to Christ Crucified. To be magnanimous means to be great-souled. This virtue is described as the flowering [...]