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As we look at Christ on the Cross we see that the true meaning of love is self-giving and sacrifice

As we look at Christ on the Cross we see that the true meaning of love is self-giving and sacrifice

Asking Christ about how to love, he appeared to the eyes of my soul. I saw Him nailed to the cross, teaching that it is to this extent that we should love and serve others.

Christ showed me His once-for-all Sacrifice, when He was nailed to a Cross and died, because of sin. Then He asked: "What more could I do for you?" His words were evidence of His love.

Christ showed me His once-for-all Sacrifice, when He was nailed to a Cross and died, because of sin. Then He asked: "What more could I do for you?" His words were evidence of His love.

Christ the Crucified One is especially close to all who suffer for His sake

Christ the Crucified One is especially close to all who suffer for His sake

The Crucifixion

In His childhood Jesus would have been used to seeing Roman soldiers, and crucifixions.

The Blessed Virgin Mary was with Christ at the end of His life. At His deposition, when His body was taken down from the Cross, her heart was nearly broken; yet she was glad that His sufferings had ended.

The one who crucifies his or her own desires, for the sake of the kingdom, truly follows the 'narrow way' which leads to Heaven.

At every Mass we stand beside Christ crucified for our salvation

Whoever curses, strikes, abandons or 'destroys' a spouse is cursing Christ in His Passion, or striking Christ with the soldiers, or abandoning Christ to His unjust sentence, or crucifying Christ on the Cross. Christ said that whatever we do to others, we do to Him.

Whoever curses, strikes, abandons or 'destroys' a spouse is cursing Christ in His Passion, or striking Christ with the soldiers, or abandoning Christ to His unjust sentence, or crucifying Christ on the Cross. Christ said that whatever we do to others, we do to Him.

Christ held out to me a purple cloak, like the one which was draped over His shoulders before his crucifixion. He invited me to put it on, as a sign that I accept the sufferings which He asks me to endure in patience on the path ahead.

As the Lord gazes upon our world, it is His wish that the faithful can find, in their churches, visual reminders of what has really happened in history: for example, the infancy of Jesus Christ, and His Crucifixion. Why should Catholics look at bare walls, in Church, when they could have reminders of the foundation of the Faith?

At the Consecration, Christ said, of His Sacrifice on the Cross: "This is what sin did". He wants everyone to know that everyone who kills an unborn child commits a grievous sin. Each abortion is like the suffering meted out to Christ in His Passion: a crucifixion of the innocent.

God's entire place of salvation leads us to the saving death of Christ, when we were given access to Heaven and to the Father through Christ. For a Christian to choose consciously not to pray through Christ, by joining in the prayer of non-Christian religions, is in effect to say that God's plan of salvation in Christ was not necessary. It is a way of denying our need for Christ.

If we try to escape the Cross, we merely flee into darkness. No Christian can expect to escape some sort of crucifixion, whether interior desolation and trials, and the dark nights, or persecution, or the knowledge of one's own sinfulness. The only way to sanctity and Heaven is upwards, with Christ, one with Him in crucifixion followed by Resurrection even in this life, to find fulfilment and joy in His service.