Comments on: The Triumph of the Cross

By: gabrielle

gabrielle — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:14:10 +0000

That’s very true, Terry; meditating on the “victory already won” can really renew our courage and perseverence through all the ups and downs of our lives, and I think if we could do it in a sustained way we wouldn’t fall victim to the continuous negativity we’re bombarded with on the daily news, etc.

By: terry

terry — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:13:52 +0000

These type of expressions of the victory already won are what comfort and inspire me. Sufferings come and go, as does happiness. But the victory of Christ is forever. And what will be is inconceivable for us.

By: gabrielle

gabrielle — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:05:02 +0000

Hi Pia! Adrienne von Speyr has a way of making me think differently, especially when prompted by readers’ insights… how are you doing?

Carol, your Christ-imagery and insights are very beautiful. We’re blessed that you can get it out of your head and heart and onto “paper”.

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:56:01 +0000

When anyone loves you, it lifts you higher. But when He loves you, all of reality as we know it is lifted. I once thought of how a young man would give me his sweater or sports jacket of a cool Fall night, and guarded even my feet from ruts and puddles as we walked and talked.. and of how a family friend put his arm protectively around my back when I was pregnant, when a car came too close as he and I checked my tire –he stepped out further behind me so that if anything got hit, it would be him, not me, and he was so angry at such a thoughtless driver. But Christ gives us, male and female, His own robe in a cool Fallen world’s night while having taken on our shabby and/or sullied suit of flesh not fit for a king to wear to the Cross, and arranged to guard our feet as we go along so vulnerable to disorders of our temporal environment, and how He is the source of all angelic arms around our backs, the go-between of dangers of the most spiritually mortal kind. He stepped between us and the one who doesn’t care that we are uniquely we, let alone pregnant.

Yep, sometimes it’s really fun to be inside my head. And yes, we do always think we are His Simon, when it is He Who is our Simon all along our own via dolorosa.

By: Pia

Pia — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:10:45 +0000

Wow. Never thought of it that way.

By: gabrielle

gabrielle — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:14:08 +0000

Yes. We tend to think that when we are yoked to Christ, all the time wondering how He can say His burden is light (because we think we’re asking for suffering big-time by helping Him carry His cross and entering into the Passion), that we will be the ones lightening His burden, when we, in fact, are the burden. He is the one who willingly yokes Himself to us, to all of humanity; and because He is Love and Mercy, He can still say, My burden is light.

By: Owen

Owen — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:27:59 +0000

For him alone, without us, there would be no struggle, for he loves the Father and human beings; he is Love. We, however, are not-love, with which his love burdens itself in order to overcome it.
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One could think on this for a long time.