To ensure that we are all crosswise.

Holy Cross, transform us all into yourself. May the roots be transformed into legs, the branches into arms, and the top into a head. So that we may all be the cross, nail our feet so that they stand firmly in you, bend our hands so that they do nothing but what you do, open our side and wound our chest so that you may touch our hearts with your love. Make us thirst for you as Christ thirsted for us.

(Josef of Leonessa, OFMCap. /1556–1612/)