Were I Amy Welborn, I'd ask what you heard for your homilies today. I haven't been to mass yet, but almost every year the homily is about Christ's ultimate triumph (in the sense of victory). Fair enough, but that's not quite the meaning of the feast we celebrate today, which commemorates St. Helen's discovery of the True Cross, and its Triumph (in the sense of procession) through the streets of Rome. It's a feast to live more with interior than exterior rejoicing --not a fast-forward to Easter, but a meditation on the great love Christ has for each one of us and the measure of that love.
Who could refrain from rejoicing at the discovery of this cross? What's a little trickier is to rejoice at the discovery of our individual cross, which is why today's feast is intimately bound to tomorrow's --the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. In Mary we have a model of how to embrace the cross with love, uniting ourselves to Christ's redemptive suffering.
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