This reflection for Passion Sunday explores why the Church veils her crosses and images as we enter the final two weeks before Easter — and what it means that the eternal Son of God, who declared "Before Abraham was, I AM," chose to hide Himself from a crowd that wanted Him dead. Drawing on Saint Augustine's reading of Christ's divine name, Saint Athanasius on the veiling of God's glory in human flesh, Saint Thomas Aquinas on Christ as both priest and victim, and Saint Catherine of Siena's image of the cross as a bridge, we reflect on the hidden God who draws closest to us precisely when He seems most absent.

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