Tuesday April 30, 2019
Feast of St Pius V, Pope
Acts 4:32-37
Jn: 3: 1-8(267)
 
 
Where there is death...there will be LIFE! 
 
Christhas conquered on the tree of the cross—and we preach a  Christcrucified! As Christians we profess that the Resurrection of  Christis the resurrection, we too experience, and that we too will rise with Him. The ancient serpent who triumphed over Adam and Eve by means of the tree is now conquered by  Christthe Great High Priest by means of the tree of the cross. The cross,  God's divine will, was probably the most demeaning and humiliating punishment. It is truly hard to think of this mystery of the cross—But the cross is the wisdom of God. 
 
Like our own sufferings we question why this? Why this way Lord? And we begin slowly to abandon ourselves to Divine Providence. My friends the cross is the way of the  †Saints †. We may look for other ways, but the Lord made our cross for us. He made it for us in eternity for our salvation so that we too may be "lifted up" with Him. 
 
We adore you O Christ and we praise you, because by your Holy Cross you have redeemed the world. 
 
St. Pius V pray for us.
 
Fr. Jeff  †