✝️ In this short excerpt, Canon Jason Jones (Diocese of Cardiff-Menevia) unpacks the meaning of reparation through the sign of the Cross. He points to Christ’s crucifixion as the definitive act of atonement — the moment in which our relationship with God is restored. Canon Jason then offers a striking image: the Cross as a “shape” of reparation. The vertical beam points us back towards God — because sin is a turning away, a deficit of love. The horizontal beam reaches outward — reminding us that