PoC-37 5th Thursday of Lent: The Power of the Cross Lenten Meditation
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
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Summary
The Cross of Christ Restores. . .Obedience
Steps to Take as You Follow Christ
Ask—Am I obedient to the commands of Jesus?
Seek—To be open to God. Receive the Eucharist and ask God to enrich you with his Body and Blood, enabling you to be an obedient son or daughter, abiding in Christ.
Knock—Meditate on 1 John 2:3–6.
And by this we may be sure that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He who says, “I know him,” but disobeys his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him; but whoever keeps his word, in him truly love for God is perfected. By this we may be sure that we are in him: he who says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
How well do we know him? How much of our disobedience is due to our own ignorance of Christ? Are we disobedient children because we do not really believe that the Father loves us, and wants what is best for us?
Transform Your Life—Accept the transfusion of life that is the Eucharist, an exchange of our sin-tainted, mortal flesh for the immortality of the God-Man. Live the Eucharist realizing that Christ remains in you. When you are tempted, call upon the presence of Christ to empower you to be obedient.
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| 0:00.0 | The Power of the Cross |
| 0:07.7 | Thursday of the 5th week of Lent |
| 0:11.1 | The Cross of Christ restores obedience |
| 0:15.4 | Ask |
| 0:17.6 | Am I obedient to the commands of Jesus? |
| 0:22.2 | Seek To be open to God. |
| 0:25.5 | Receive the Eucharist and ask God to enrich you with his body and blood, |
| 0:30.2 | enabling you to be an obedient son or daughter abiding in Christ. |
| 0:36.4 | Knock, meditate on 1st John, John chapter 2 verses 3 through 6. |
| 0:43.5 | We can be sure that we know God only by keeping His commandments. |
| 0:48.5 | Anyone who says, I know him and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, refusing to admit the truth. |
| 0:57.3 | But when anyone does obey what he has said, God's love comes to perfection in him. |
| 1:04.3 | We can be sure that we are in God only when the one who claims to be living in him is living |
| 1:10.2 | the same kind of life as Christ lived. |
| 1:16.6 | How well do we know him? |
| 1:18.6 | How much of our disobedience is due to our own ignorance of Christ? |
| 1:23.6 | Are we disobedient children because we do not really believe that the Father loves us and wants what is best for us? |
| 1:34.0 | Transform your life. |
| 1:36.5 | Accept the transfusion of life that is the Eucharist. |
| 1:40.9 | In exchange of our sin-tainted mortal flesh for the immortality of the God man. |
| 1:49.1 | Live the Eucharist, realizing that Christ remains in you. |
| 1:53.8 | When you are tempted, call upon the presence of Christ to empower you to be obedient. |
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