How Can I Make Up Anything That Christ Lacks? — Lent #3, Christians

This is the third homily in my brief series How Different People View the Cross.


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The first week was the Father's view, and last week was "the world's".  This week (4th Sunday of Lent, Laetare Sunday) uses John chapter 3 to begin to look at how Christians should view the Cross of Christ: to love the Cross, to live the Cross, and to "make up in our bodies what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ".

We Preach Stumbling Blocks & Foolishness — Lent #2, the World

Homily #2 in the series on How Different People View the Cross.  (I apologize for my reading stumbles.  A creeping migraine aura was making page reading somewhat tricky!)


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Last week, we saw Abraham and Isaac as a lens for how the Father sees the Cross.  This week (3rd Sunday of Lent), it's St. Paul's words about how the Cross is foolishness and weakness to the Greeks and Jews, that shows us how "the world" sees the Cross.  More importantly, we need not fear that it seems that way, for the foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of the world, and His weakness is greater than its strength.  In the end, the world is crazy, and Saints Francis and Maria Goretti are the sane ones.