We adore you oh Christ and we bless you. Because by your holy cross,you have redeemed the world.

THE CROSS

The cross is a shield against the devil as well as a trophy of victory. It is God’s instrument to lift up those who have fallen and to support those still on their feet fighting. It is a crutch for the crippled and a guide for the wayward, it is our constant goal as we advance the very well spring of our body and soul it drives away all evils, annihilates sin and draws down for us abundant goods.

This is indeed the seed of the resurrection and the tree of eternal life those words my good friends come to us from one of the very early Fathers of the Church, St. John Damascene. They are as true today in the 21stcentury as the day Saint John Damascene wrote them. They will be as true on the last day of this created world as we now know it as when St. John Damascene wrote...clickhttps://christground.com/2019/09/16/the-exaltation-of-the-cross-fr-charles-connor/to continue reading.