We pray Friday in the second week of Easter with a Morning Offering and a reading from Saint Theodore the Studite that praises the Cross as the Tree of Life. We meditate on how the Cross overturns sin and death, fulfills the signs of Scripture, and draws us back toward paradise with Christ. 
• Opening prayers and the Morning Offering through the Immaculate Heart of Mary 
• The Cross as precious gift and Tree of Life that brings light and return 
• Christ as king and warrior who defeats the devil and heals our wounds 
• The great reversal: death into life, shame into glory, pride into true wisdom 
• Old Testament figures that foreshadow the Cross: Noah, Moses, Aaron, Abraham 
• The Cross as glory of the apostles, crown of martyrs, sanctification of saints 
• Closing prayer, Sacred Heart devotion, and Marian intercessions 
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