The Dynamics of The Cross and Resurrection

St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

St. Josemaria Institute

St. Josemaria Escriva, Opus Dei, Christianity, Spirituality, Catholic, Meditation, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Gospel

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🗓️ 16 April 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Reflection… Easter is the highest celebration of the Church because it is the culmination of the Paschal Mystery with Jesus as victor over sin and death. The properties of his suffering on the Cross and his Resurrection stimulate change. Not only a visible change in our behavior but also a spiritual change in direct correlation with our relationship in prayer with the Lord. All of this is made possible through a young Jewish girl’s "yes" to an Angel sent By God. Mary’s Fiat! As this young gi...

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0:00.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
0:08.5	My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.
0:15.6	I adore you with profound reverence.
0:18.7	I ask your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this
0:23.1	time of prayer fruitful my immaculate mother Saint Joseph my father and Lord
0:29.9	my guardian angel and to see for them with your permission Lord Jesus Christ
0:36.0	truly present with us in the Blessed Sacral.
0:39.8	The topic of our prayer as we come before the resurrected Christ hidden behind the curtain of the properties of bread,
0:51.4	we ask you, Lord, to help us understand the dynamics of the cross, because the
1:01.3	cross and resurrection are one reality. There's no resurrection without the cross, and the cross
1:08.7	doesn't count for anything if there's no resurrection.
1:12.2	At face value, when I looked at the schedule of meditation topics,
1:18.3	my weaker side said, well, we just got over Lent in Holy Week.
1:23.9	Basta, enough.
1:26.3	But I guess whoever put the topics for, or devise the topics for April, said, well, since
1:32.3	our Lord says we have to pick up our cross every day, just in case we forget, even during
1:37.8	this time of the resurrection, we need to bring the cross to our conversations with our Lord.
1:47.7	Every day is a good day to meditate on this dynamic of the cross.
1:55.6	What do I say dynamic of the cross?
1:57.9	Because the cross always leads to a resurrection.
2:02.1	When we tell ourselves and tell each other and are reminded, offered up, it means experience the resurrection, vis-a-vis the cross.
2:12.8	And today we celebrate the solemnity of the enunciation.
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