PoC-20 3rd Monday of Lent: The Power of the Cross Lenten Meditation
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
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Summary
The Cross of Christ Transforms. . .How We See Jesus
Steps to Take as You Follow Christ
Ask—Am I overly familiar with Christ?
Seek—Read the Gospels every day. Encounter Christ as he is presented and try to imagine him in the world today, doing the same acts, confronting unbelief in the modern world.
Knock—Meditate on 1 Peter 2:4–5.
Come to him, to that living stone, rejected by men but in God’s sight chosen and precious; and like living stones be yourselves built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Think also about the life of St. Peter; what about his experience of Christ might have led him to come up with this image?
Transform Your Life—There is nothing that exists that can transform our lives more than a relationship with Jesus Christ as he really is—give your life to Christ. Believe, placing all of your trust in his powerful being, and embrace his power in your weakness.
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| 0:00.0 | The Power of the Cross |
| 0:03.4 | Monday of the third week of Lent |
| 0:06.9 | The Cross of Christ transforms how we see Jesus. |
| 0:15.0 | Ask, am I overly familiar with Christ? |
| 0:20.6 | Seek. |
| 0:21.9 | Read the Gospels every day. |
| 0:24.4 | Encounter Christ as he is presented and try to imagine him in the world today, |
| 0:29.6 | doing the same acts confronting unbelief in the modern world. |
| 0:35.5 | Knock. |
| 0:36.8 | Meditate on 1st Peter chapter 2, verses 4 through 5. |
| 0:42.9 | He is the living stone, rejected by men, but chosen by God and precious to him. |
| 0:50.6 | Set yourselves close to him so that you too, the holy priesthood that offers the spiritual sacrifices |
| 0:57.4 | which Jesus Christ has made acceptable to God, may be living stones making a spiritual house. |
| 1:10.0 | Rocks are inanimate objects. |
| 1:13.6 | It is because they don't move that they make good building blocks. |
| 1:18.6 | Why then does Peter talk about living stones? |
| 1:22.6 | Think about this metaphor and your faith life. |
| 1:26.6 | In what way does your faith in Christ make you a living |
| 1:30.1 | stone? Think also about the life of St. Peter. What about his experience of Christ |
| 1:36.7 | might have led him to come up with this image? Transform your life. |
| 1:45.0 | There is nothing that exists that can transform our lives more than a relationship with Jesus Christ as he really is. |
| 1:53.0 | Give your life to Christ. |
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