[Grem] Gospel meditation (Bp. Barron)

[Emoke Greschik]

Friends, today we celebrate *the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross*.
How strange this feast would have sounded to someone *in the ancient world*!
The triumph of the cross! I*t would have been analogous to someone speaking
today of the triumph of the electric chair or the exaltation of the noose.*

*The cross terrified people in Greco-Roman times*, and that was the point.
The cross was state-sponsored terrorism, a form of capital punishment
reserved for those who had in the most egregious ways undermined the
authority of the Roman state.

*So why are we celebrating the triumph of the cross? There is only one
possible explanation, and that is the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead. *All
the attempts to soft-pedal and explain away the Resurrection are ruled out
by this feast. If Jesus was a victim of that terrible cross *tout court*,
then we should all go home.

*Once they had taken in the experience of the Resurrection, the first
Christians turned with rapt attention to the cross, convinced that in it
they would find something decisive. Somehow, in the strange providence of
God, that cross was ingredient in the very process by which God would save
the world.*


*Imádkozzál érettünk, Istennek szent Anyja!  Hogy méltók lehessünk Krisztus
ígéreteire!  Könyörögjünk! Kérünk téged, Úristen, öntsd lelkünkbe szent
kegyelmedet, hogy akik az angyali üzenet által szent Fiadnak, Jézus
Krisztusnak megtestesülését megismertük, az ő kínszenvedése és keresztje
által a föltámadás dicsőségébe vitessünk! Krisztus, a mi Urunk által. Ámen.*
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