Word for the Week
Glory of the Cross
March 26, 2023
March 26, 2023
The Catholic Church glories in every deed of Christ. Her supreme glory, however, is the cross. Well aware of this, Paul says: “God forbid that I should glory in anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ!”
At the Pool of Siloam, there was a sense of wonder, and rightly so. A man born blind recovered his sight. But of what importance is this, when there are so many blind people in the world? Lazarus rose from the dead, but even this only affected Lazarus. What of those countless numbers who have died because of their sins? Those five miraculous loaves fed five thousand people. Yet this is a small number compared to those all over the world who were starved by ignorance. After eighteen years a woman was freed from the bondage of Satan. But are we not all shackled by the chains of our sins?
For us all, however, the cross is the crown of victory! It has brought light to those blinded by ignorance. It has released those enslaved by sin. Indeed, it has redeemed the whole of the human race! Do not, then, be ashamed of the cross of Christ; rather, glory in it!
– from The Catechetical Lectures by Cyril of Jerusalem (313–386)
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