After hearing the words of Jesus who said, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me,” (Matt 16:24) I received this e-mail from one of my second-grade parishioners: ![]() Rose of Lima said, “Apart from the cross there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.”Ĭarrying the cross is not easy. It is also intrinsic to our lives as followers of Jesus. ![]() Yet we realize that the cross of Jesus Christ is not just an instrument of execution – not just the altar on which he offered himself as sacrifice for our sins. Now the Angel of Death passes over us, and we are filled with the divine life of the Holy Spirit. Even before we are baptized, we mark the tents of our bodies with the cross – because on the cross, Jesus, our paschal lamb, shed his blood for us. The cross of our Lord Jesus is inseparable from the life of a Christian.
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