The 7 Sundays of the Holy Cross

As we continue the 7 Sundays of the Feast of the Holy Cross,
we behold the Sign of the Jonah and the Hope of our Salvation.

We enter in faith the culminating celebration of the Church's calendar year.
We enter in hope the culminating celebration of this world and the world to come.
We enter in love the Holy Mysteries of Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.
We enter the heart of the Mother of God, and we encounter the maternal love she gives to the beloved disciple at the Foot of the Cross. She is the great birth-giver of discipleship -- and thus the Church itself -- the New Eve who is "the Mother of All the Living" members of the Body of Christ.

Note here the "re-capitulation" of Pentecost

in the Feast of the Holy Cross.

And through time and history

see the "Anno Domini" as an epiphany of the Church.


From St. Ephrem in his second mêmrâ "On Reproof":

Let us be builders of our own minds
into temples suitable for God.

If the Lord dwells in your house,
honor will come to your door.

How much your 'honor' will increase
if God dwells within you.

Be a sanctuary for him, even a priest,
and serve him within your temple.

Just as for your sake he became
High priest, sacrifice, and libation;

you, for his sake, become
temple, priest, and sacrificial offering.