The two disciples leaving Jerusalem said, "We had hoped..." It's a profoundly human sentiment we all share, but Jesus' death on the cross is, in part, a statement that in a world dominated by the certainty of death, our lesser hopes must die. And so the cross which is for the disciples is also for us. But it is the aftermath of the Resurrection--after the cross--that things change and begin to make sense in light of remembrance and reflection. In fact, everything changes. ( notes)