Today the Church celebrates Holy Cross Day. It's a day we remember how Jesus came into his glory by being lifted up on the Cross of crucifixion--yet his death wasn't the last word. Indeed Christ overcame death for the sake of the world. Today would be a good day to remember your baptism into Jesus Christ's death and resurrection. And while you're at it, make the sign of the cross on your forehead!
St. Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 1:18, 21-24 "For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God...For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God."
On this day, we pray for grace to choose the way of the Cross and for Christ's gift of hope to the world through his death on the Cross and his resurrection.
Lift high the Cross!
--St. Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 1:18, 21-24 "For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God...For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God."
On this day, we pray for grace to choose the way of the Cross and for Christ's gift of hope to the world through his death on the Cross and his resurrection.
Lift high the Cross!
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