Such a transformation means death,
if you will,
but a glorious death,
a death which in reality is survival,
in which all those souls that freely submit,
all the authorities that accept the metamorphosis,
are crowned with the glory of a higher and nobler condition.

Father A.G. Sertillanges
‘What Jesus Saw From the Cross’

James Tissot ‘What Our Lord Saw From the Cross’ (‘Ce que voyait Notre-Seigneur sur la Croix’)