Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything. - St Gregory of Nyssa

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Veneration of the Cross

"He who does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me" (Mt.10:38). 
For in the Cross of Christ Crucified lies both "the power of God and the wisdom of God" for those being saved (1 Cor.1:24).

The Third Sunday of Lent (March 27, this year) is that of the Veneration of the Cross. The cross stands in the midst of the church in the middle of the Lenten season not merely to remind men of Christ's redemption and to keep before them the goal of their efforts, but also to be venerated as that reality by which man must live to be saved.

Before Thy Cross, we bow in veneration, O Master,
and Thy Holy Resurrection, we glorify!

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