In the present volume, Adrienne von Speyr offers a series of short meditations on Jesus’ last words from the Cross, considering each of these seven words in relation to one of the sacraments. For Adrienne, the Lord’s words are “vessels in so far as they are part of the Church’s structure, but they are the vessel’s content in so far as they spring from and hold the Lord’s life. The words not only accompany them exteriorly, as pointers; they are their substantial expression. They are sacramental, life-bearing words, just as the sacraments contain the life of the Word of God. Word and life, Word and sacrament, Christ and Church, merge into one another imperceptibly” (from the Introduction).