{"id":5087,"date":"2015-09-14T10:37:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/kathrynlopez\/?p=5087"},"modified":"2015-09-14T19:54:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T00:54:13","slug":"10-exaltation-of-the-cross-things-today-sept-14-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kathrynlopez\/2015\/09\/10-exaltation-of-the-cross-things-today-sept-14-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Exaltation of the Holy Cross Things Today (Sept. 14, 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>1. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Cross of Christ is our Light in the darkness of sin and life's trials\n<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qKjRRIzv2p\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/qKjRRIzv2p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fr Lawrence Lew OP (@LawrenceOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LawrenceOP\/status\/643435572208508928\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 14, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>2. Saint Andrew of Crete explains in the Liturgy of the Hours for today: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are celebrating the feast of the cross which drove away darkness and brought in the light. As we keep this feast, we are lifted up with the crucified Christ, leaving behind us earth and sin so that we may gain the things above. So great and outstanding a possession is the cross that he who wins it has won a treasure. Rightly could I call this treasure the fairest of all fair things and the costliest, in fact as well as in name, for on it and through it and for its sake the riches of salvation that had been lost were restored to us.<br>\nHad there been no cross, Christ could not have been crucified. Had there been no cross, life itself could not have been nailed to the tree. And if life had not been nailed to it, there would be no streams of immortality pouring from Christ\u2019s side, blood and water for the world\u2019s cleansing. The legal bond of our sin would not be cancelled, we should not have attained our freedom, we should not have enjoyed the fruit of the tree of life and the gates of paradise would not stand open. Had there been no cross, death would not have been trodden underfoot, nor hell despoiled.<br>\nTherefore, the cross is something wonderfully great and honorable. It is great because through the cross the many noble acts of Christ found their consummation\u2014very many indeed, for both his miracles and his sufferings were fully rewarded with victory. The cross is honorable because it is both the sign of God\u2019s suffering and the trophy of his victory. It stands for his suffering because on it he freely suffered unto death. But it is also his trophy because it was the means by which the devil was wounded and death conquered; the barred gates of hell were smashed, and the cross became the one common salvation of the whole world.<br>\nThe cross is called Christ\u2019s glory; it is saluted as his triumph. We recognize it as the cup he longed to drink and the climax of the sufferings he endured for our sake. As to the cross being Christ\u2019s glory, listen to his words: <i>Now is the Son of Man glorified, and in him God is glorified, and God will glorify him at once<\/i>. And again: <i>Father, glorify me with the glory I had with you before the world came to be<\/i>. And once more: <i>Father, glorify your name. Then a voice came from heaven: I have glorified it and I will glorify it again<\/i>. Here he speaks of the glory that would accrue to him through the cross. And if you would understand that the cross is Christ\u2019s triumph, hear what he himself also said: <i>When I am lifted up, then I will draw all men to myself<\/i>. Now you can see that the cross is Christ\u2019s glory and triumph.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>3. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\"The Lord never sends a Cross that is too dififcult to carry with his help.\" {My mother} <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/jaeQcoCiJi\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/jaeQcoCiJi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fr. Willy Raymond (@FrWilly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrWilly\/status\/643422901111259136\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 14, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>4. <a href=\"http:\/\/monasterypodcast.com\/?p=3294\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A monastery morning prayer podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>5. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.radiovaticana.va\/news\/2015\/09\/14\/pope_follow_the_way_of_the_cross_against_the_temptation_of_\/1171745\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pope Francis<\/a>: Jesus torn and bloodied by our sins. This is the path that He took to defeat the serpent in his own camp. <\/p>\n<p>(For more on combatting the serpent, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/415757\/hell-satan-interview\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>6. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Celebrate the feast of the Holy Cross by reading the Old English poem, 'The Dream of the Rood'\n<a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/PrmBtBRT4G\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/PrmBtBRT4G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fr Lawrence Lew OP (@LawrenceOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LawrenceOP\/status\/643405986200469504\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 14, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>7. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We should glory in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ: in whom is our salvation, life and resurrection (Gal 6:14). <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Roodmas?src=hash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#Roodmas<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HolyCross?src=hash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#HolyCross<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fr James Bradley (@FrJamesBradley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrJamesBradley\/status\/643378167600824320\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 14, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>8. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/091415.cfm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Today\u2019s Mass readings.<br>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>9. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osv.com\/Magazines\/TheCatholicAnswer\/ChurchHistory\/Article\/TabId\/802\/ArtMID\/13655\/ArticleID\/11007\/The-Cross-Triumphant.aspx\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">On today and tomorrow.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>10. A Franciscan poet by the name of Brother Jacopone da Todi, O.F.M., appears in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.magnificat.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Magnificat<\/a><\/em> today: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>O Sweet Love, you have killed your Beloved,<br>\nI beg of you, let me die of Love!<br>\nLove, you who led your Lover to such a hard death, why have you done this?<br>\nWas it that you did not want me to perish?<br>\nDo not spare me, let me die in Love\u2019s embrace.<\/p>\n<p>You did not spare him whom you loved so dearly;<br>\nWhy then be indulgent with me?<br>\nCatch me on your hook,<br>\nLike fish that cannot get away-<br>\nThat will be a sign that you love me.<br>\nDo not spare me: I long to die drowned in Love.<\/p>\n<p>Love is fixed to the cross-<br>\nThe cross has taken him and will not let him go.<br>\nI run and cling to that cross<br>\nThat my anguish may not drive me mad.<br>\nTo flee would lead me to despair;<br>\nFor my name would be cancelled<br>\n  from the book of Love.<\/p>\n<p>O cross, I fix myself to you and cling to you,<br>\nThat as I die, I may taste Life!<br>\nFor you are adorned with honeyed Death<br>\nAnd I am wretched not to have tasted you!<br>\nO daring soul, impatient for wounds,<br>\nMay I die heartbroken with Love!<\/p>\n<p>I run to the cross and read<br>\nIts blood-stained pages\u2013<br>\nThat is the book that makes me<br>\nA doctor of natural philosophy and theology.<br>\nO book inscribed with golden letters<br>\nAnd all a bloom with Love!<\/p>\n<p>O Love of the Lamb, vaster than any sea,<br>\nWho can dare to speak of you?<br>\nHe who has drowned in you,<br>\nAnd no longer knows where he is;<br>\nHe to whom folly seems the right path,<br>\nWho goes about crazed by Love.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Don\u2019t miss such gems; subscribe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magnificat.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLUS:<br>\n<\/strong><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/benedict-xvi\/en\/audiences\/2009\/documents\/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20090527.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">By the way, do you know Theodore the Studite?<br>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\"How splendid the cross of Christ! It brings life, not death\u2026\" <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/dailyeSpiration?src=hash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#dailyeSpiration<\/a> from Theodore of Studios <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/FC6SlcKKtv\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/FC6SlcKKtv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steubenville (@go2steubenville) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/go2steubenville\/status\/643423975507267585\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 14, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Some afternoon additions: <\/p>\n<p>Fr. Steve Grunow: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordonfire.org\/resources\/blog\/why-do-we-exalt-the-cross\/1800\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Why Do We Exalt the Cross? <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PHOTO: Crucifix based on the image from the Shroud of Turin, from the Basilica Santa Croce, Rome <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/KpXvar6WTE\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/KpXvar6WTE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pius Pietrzyk (@PiusOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PiusOP\/status\/643470455660249088\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 14, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The holy cross of Christ is the standard of God's armies, of which Mary is Queen, and by the cross she crushes serpents underfoot. -St Cyril<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chad Pecknold (@ccpecknold) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ccpecknold\/status\/643467053484109825\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 14, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This was Love\u2019s great deed, that death should die when Life itself was slain upon the tree. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/vespers?src=hash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#vespers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fr. Patrick Brennan (@Pathound) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pathound\/status\/643451846921748481\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 14, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jesus is the Savior of the world. Listen to Msgr. John Esseff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discerninghearts.com\/Esseff\/The-feast-of-Exaltation-Cross.mp3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> on the Exaltation of the Cross:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The heart of Jesus is the love of Jesus \u2013 a pierced heart overcomes all power in the world. There is nothing more powerful than love. Love is the greatest force in the world. Love is what the heart of Jesus teaches us. Love is what the cross is all about.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Lord hung upon the cross to wash away our sins in his own blood. How splendid is that blessed cross! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ExaltationoftheHolyCross?src=hash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#ExaltationoftheHolyCross<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Saint Pauls Outreach (@SPO_National) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SPO_National\/status\/643517486881710080\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 14, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. The Cross of Christ is our Light in the darkness of sin and life&#8217;s trials https:\/\/t.co\/qKjRRIzv2p \u2014 Fr Lawrence Lew OP (@LawrenceOP) September 14, 2015 2. 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