I love this quote and am so glad that Anastasia let me quote it here. It blessed me tremendously.   I had thought about the connection between the Passover Lamb and the Cross before (I spoke about it here).  What struck me was the connection between the Passover Lamb and Christ's body and blood at the Eucharist.   I'd never seen that before.  Thanks Anastasia.  

Here is more of what she wrote:  

"He died to share our human lot to the last, bitter dregs, and to redeem it. “Whatever is not assumed is not healed.” [ed. note: Ireaneus]

He died to tread that dark path before us, so that now, when we walk it, we find it full of His Light, full of His Love, full of Himself. That makes of it something that is NOT death as we had known it, at all! That transforms death into the gateway to new life.

He died to exercise *perfect* love. Love cannot be said to have been perfect unless it has been tested to the fullest.
Similarly, obedience cannot be said to have been perfect unless it is tested under the most extreme conditions. "