Good Friday- The Meaning of the Cross
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2017
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Many people wonder, and even become angry, about God’s ways. In this episode for Good Friday, Fr. Mike explains why God’s answers often seem like contradictions to us. While Jesus dying on the Cross makes no sense according to human wisdom, according to God’s perfect wisdom, the Cross answers all our most burning questions in a way only God can answer them.
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| 0:00.0 | How many names father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension Presents? |
| 0:11.4 | So in this season, this time in the church year, we meditate on the cross, we reflect on |
| 0:18.5 | the cross. |
| 0:19.7 | And it's interesting because from the very beginning of Christianity, St. Paul called the |
| 0:25.5 | cross of Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God, the power of God and the wisdom |
| 0:30.6 | of God, which makes no sense to us, right? |
| 0:32.6 | Here's the power of God, Jesus Christ, God Himself, God and man, completely humiliated, |
| 0:39.2 | completely powerless, completely stripped. |
| 0:45.0 | That's the power of God, dead on a cross. |
| 0:48.8 | The wisdom of God, like how in the world is that wise? |
| 0:56.1 | In Paul, recognize that that cross would be a, well, it's a sign of contradiction, right? |
| 1:02.0 | Jesus, it was prophesied that he would be a sign of contradiction by the prophet Simeon |
| 1:07.0 | in the beginning of Luke's gospel, the beginning of Jesus' life. |
| 1:10.8 | The cross is always both out of place and the cross is always 100% relevant. |
| 1:20.4 | You know, for the first centuries, actually, I would say even millennia and a half are |
| 1:24.6 | more of Christianity, but cross is God's answer for our sin. |
| 1:30.7 | That here we are in injustice, we recognize that we're sinners, that we're separated |
| 1:34.8 | from God, that we choose to say no to God, we choose to use each other, we choose to |
| 1:40.4 | reject God, we choose to not be the people God has called us to be. |
| 1:44.9 | And the cross is God's answer for our sin. |
| 1:48.1 | The cross is how God wins back our souls, because why? |
| 1:53.2 | Because injustice, we deserve not God. |
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