Adoration or veneration of an image or representation of Christ's cross does not mean that we actually adore the material image, of course, but rather what it represents. In kneeling before the ...

for through the Cross, joy has come into the world.” Sermon: Third Sunday of Great Lent (Veneration of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross) Fr. Milan Medakovic Sermon: Third Sunday of Great Lent ...

And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save ...