The cross cannot be emptied of its meaning as long as we realize it was God’s initiative, because it was God’s expression of the depth of his love for all of mankind: that his Son would take on flesh and, in that flesh, offer up himself as a sacrifice for the sake of all mankind, to prove the depth of God’s love for us all.
When we are open to God’s revelation, when we are willing to live in the context of that revelation, the revelation of God’s love on the cross, then anything can happen and we’ll be able to find the Lord in it.
Faith, for us, is not the limit to what we know. Faith is the reassurance that there’s a great deal more than we know, and our ability to move towards it. Do we proclaim the cross of Christ, the depth of God’s love, in who we are as a community, or is there something else that we are proclaiming?
The cross is everything. It’s foolishness to many: why would your Son die? But it is God’s Wisdom to us, because we know only love makes that possible.
--Fr Patrick Michaels,
Homily, August 30, 2024
Image source: Veneration of the Cross, Good Friday 2025, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mill Valley, https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1116337687198311&type=3
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