{"id":88852,"date":"2017-09-14T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=88852"},"modified":"2017-09-10T14:50:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T21:50:14","slug":"exaltation-of-the-holy-cross-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/exaltation-of-the-holy-cross-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Exaltation of the Holy Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span>oday is celebrated in the western Church as the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross<\/a> (Exaltatio Sanct\u00e6 Crucis)<\/em>. In the eastern Church, it is known as “the Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-creating Cross”.<\/p>\n

The feast commemorates a number of events: the finding of the True Cross in 326 in Jerusalem by Saint Helena, the later dedication of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 335, and the recovery of the True Cross from the Persians in 628.<\/p>\n

\"Exaltation<\/a>

Exaltation of the Cross from the Tr\u00e8s Riches Heures du Duc de Berry<\/i> (Mus\u00e9e Cond\u00e9, Chantilly)<\/p><\/div>\n

From today’s Office of Readings, however, I give you the real meaning of the feast:<\/p>\n

\nW<\/span>e are celebrating the feast of the cross<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

Had 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.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the cross is something wonderfully great and honourable. It is great because through the cross the many noble acts of Christ found their consummation \u2013 very many indeed, for both his miracles and his sufferings were fully rewarded with victory. The cross is honourable 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.<\/p>\n

(from a Discourse <\/em>by St. Andrew of Crete)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We adore You, O Christ, and praise You,
\nBecause by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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