PoC-29 4th Wednesday of Lent: The Power of the Cross Lenten Meditation
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🗓️ 17 March 2026
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The Cross of Christ Illumines. . .Death
The-CrossSteps to Take as You Follow Christ
Ask—Who can save me from death?
Seek—Pray for the dead, especially those you have known in life—family, friends, co-workers, and benefactors. When you are at Mass, call to mind those who have died when the priest mentions them in the Eucharistic Prayer.
Knock—Meditate on 1 Thessalonians 4:13–14.
But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
If people who have died come to mind when you read over this passage, pray for them.
Transform Your Life—An ancient Christian practice is to remember death. This is not a morbid fascination with the inevitable but a clarifying experience, reminding us that our final end need not be death but life with God, and that the shortness of our earthly existence should be focused on doing whatever will build up God’s kingdom.
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| 0:00.0 | The Power of the Cross, Wednesday for the fourth week of Lent. |
| 0:09.3 | The Cross of Christ illumines death. |
| 0:13.7 | Ask, who can save me from death? |
| 0:18.7 | Seek. Pray for the debt, especially those you have known in life, family, friends, co-workers, and benefactors. |
| 0:28.2 | When you are at Mass, call to mind those who have died when the priest mentions them in the Eucharistic Prayer. |
| 0:36.1 | Knock. Meditate on 1st Thessalonians chapter 4, verses 13 through 14. |
| 0:43.2 | We want you to be quite certain brothers about those who have died, to make sure that you |
| 0:49.2 | do not grieve about them, like the other people who have no hope. |
| 0:54.0 | We believe that Jesus died and rose again, and that it will be the same for those who have died |
| 1:00.0 | in Jesus. God will bring them with Him. |
| 1:06.0 | Think about how Jesus grieved at the tomb of Lazarus and how he has modeled what Christian |
| 1:12.9 | grief should look like. |
| 1:15.8 | How has society's denial of death affected the way people are allowed to grieve in our culture? |
| 1:24.1 | If people who have died come to mind when you read over this passage, pray for them. |
| 1:34.3 | Transform your life. |
| 1:36.3 | An ancient Christian practice is to remember death. |
| 1:40.3 | This is not to be a morbid fascination with the inevitable, but a clarifying experience, |
| 1:47.0 | reminding us that our final end need not be death, but life with God, |
| 1:52.0 | and that the shortness of our earthly existence should be focused on doing whatever will build up God's kingdom. |
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