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The Perspective of
Justice
Exaltation of the Holy Cross
September 14, 2014
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Isn’t
it amazing that we base our religion on an instrument of
execution intended to bring the cruelest suffering and most
humiliating death to the lowest of human beings, the dregs
of society. We take images of that horrible instrument and
we hang them as decorations in our houses, we make jewelry
in its image, and we trace its image over our bodies whenever
we pray.
We are a religion of the cross and of all that it stood for. We do not run away
from suffering and death, but rather we transform them into salvation and resurrection.
We do not run away from humiliation, but rather we joyfully accept humiliation
for the sake of the glory of God. We do not run away from the lowest of human
beings, but rather we embrace them as other Christs.
“When I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men
to myself, says the Lord.” The powers of this world are
nothing compared to the power of the cross of Christ.
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in His boundless love freely underwent His passion
and death because of the sins of all men, so that
all might attain salvation. It is, therefore, the
duty of the Church’s preaching to proclaim the
cross of Christ as the sign of God’s all-embracing
love and as the fountain from which every grace flows. Vatican II, Declaration on the Relationship
of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (1965)
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Now
published in book form,
To Love and Serve:
Lectionary Based Meditations, by
Gerald Darring
This entire three year cycle is available at
Amazon.com.
Copyright ©
1994, Gerald Darring.
All Rights Reserved.
Art by Martin Erspamer,
O.S.B.
from Religious Clip Art for the Liturgical
Year (A, B, and C).
Used by permission of Liturgy Training
Publications. This art may be reproduced only
by parishes who purchase the collection in book
or CD-ROM form. For more information go to:
http://www.ltp.org/
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