Sunday of the Cross

We bow down before Your Cross, O Master,and we glorify Your holy Resurrection.

Today the Cross is carried in solemn procession, as Christ draws near to His voluntary death; and we follow Him to our own voluntary death before involuntary death overtakes us. That is, we crucify the selves we were born, to emerge as true members of Christ. We refuse to indulge, and we repudiate, our greed, selfishness, jealousies, lusts, pride, and all our other passions, that we may live a whole new order of Life, both here and in the ages to come. The way of the Cross becomes the way of Life.

No longer does the flaming sword guard the gate of Eden, for a glorious extinction has come upon it, the wood of the Cross. The sting has been drawn from death and the victory from Hades. And Thou, my Saviour, didst come and shout to those in Hades: Enter Paradise again.

"If anyone will be My disciple, let him take up his cross, and deny himself, and follow Me."