Good article.

I think this one point, however, is errant: "The wounds of Jesus had not disappeared, but they did not define him and the forgiveness he offered promised that those wounds need not define those who inflicted them."

Her sentence falls short and mutes a much grander and pastoral point for us. 

I think Jesus's suffering - his self-emptying love for you and for me - DID in fact 'define Him'.  

The Crucifix is the precise image that Jesus gave - and the Church gives us today - to know what real love is.  It's self-gift, often a painful, obedient, going against the easier grain Yes. 

Jesus "converted" suffering (costly self-gift) into love, and in so doing gave us a "secret way" to divinize all moments of our life, in a "Midas-touch" sort of way. 

We should want to let His way of loving "define us".  We should let the image of His wounds impregnate our own loving action during the day, quietly, perhaps in a near constant chatter with our Father God.