Why Wear a Crucifix?
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Why do Catholics wear crucifixes? Jeff explains the difference between a cross and a crucifix and emphasizes how a crucifix reminds us of true love, suffering, and being alive in Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Ascension. To discover even more free Catholic podcasts, |
| 0:05.6 | videos, and resources, to help you live your faith every day, visit ascensionpress.com. |
| 0:11.7 | Welcome to the Jeff Kaven Show, where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and evangelization, |
| 0:18.5 | putting it all together in living as activated disciples. |
| 0:23.7 | This is show 441. Why Wear a Crucifix? |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome to the show. I'm Jeff Kavans. Good to be with you again. If it's your first time joining me on the show, welcome. Welcome to a wonderful family. We get together every week and we talk about everything that really, you know, has to do with the Bible, studying the Bible and being a witness and how to put the word of God into practice, |
| 0:55.6 | how to be a disciple, really. And today we're going to talk about a practice that almost |
| 1:01.7 | everybody is aware of, but a lot of people are not aware of why they do it, and that is wearing |
| 1:08.4 | a cross. And you can see this as you go out to the mall, walk around, |
| 1:12.8 | you're probably going to see a cross hanging around somebody's neck. Watch network news, |
| 1:17.6 | cable news. You'll see hosts are wearing the crucifix or a cross at least. We'll talk about |
| 1:23.3 | the difference between them, a cross and a crucifix, and sports stars. They oftentimes will wear a |
| 1:29.4 | cross or crucifix and actually do the sign of the cross while they are up to bat or before a game |
| 1:36.7 | begins or whatever it might be. And you'll find this in a lot of different sports and also in the |
| 1:42.9 | entertainment industry. |
| 1:44.9 | But what about you? |
| 1:45.7 | Do you wear a cross? |
| 1:46.7 | Do you wear one? |
| 1:48.0 | Some people say, I don't wear one because I don't like anything around my neck. |
| 1:51.8 | It kind of bothers them. |
| 1:52.8 | But more than not, I have seen people do enjoy wearing a cross. |
| 1:58.7 | And in fact, they have several crosses. and some of them have a lot of meaning |
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