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Utterly divine4/19/2023 ![]() ![]() It is a means of connection to one another on the basis of what the Cross means, stated by our Lord on the night in which He gave Himself for the life of the word: And we use the Cross as a ladder to ascend unto life, and eternal life at that!īut this ladder is also a bridge. The Lord used the Cross as a ladder to descend unto death and destroy it by His own death. The miracle of the Cross is that it so utterly turns upside down and inside out all of our assumptions about life and death. Indeed, my beloved Christians, our Veneration of the Precious and Life-giving Cross today is a miraculous mystery for we embrace that instrument of torment and death, and we receive consolation and life. And in the first blossoms of Spring that adorn the Cross, we see “writ large” the message of the Gospel of re-birth that infuses this Lenten season with the promise of new life in Christ. At the same time, we pause for a moment beneath the refreshing shade of this Tree of Life, so as to hear a faint echo of Pascha coming toward us in the melodies of today’s canon. ![]() Today, the Precious and Life-giving Cross of the Lord is offered to us as a mystical signpost, marking the Mid-Point of our Lenten journey. What better place, in all of our Archdiocese, to observe the Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross – than in this Sacred Space, this glorious Chapel of the Holy Cross? Dear Family of Hellenic College and Holy Cross, ![]()
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