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SUNDAY September 17- 2023- YEAR 2- Episode# 80 Good Sunday Morning with Fr Andre on KNUS 710 am: Feast of the Holy Cross
The Cross and Our Lady: 2 SIGNS OF FAITH THAT ARE BEING CONTRADICTED. They both indicate the DESTINATION OF THE CHURCH and the Call for ALL THE NATIONS to accept Salvation in Jesus Christ.
Written by Fr. A-Sebastian Mahanna
Praised be the Most Holy Name of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ now and forever Amen! Halleluia! Happy Feast Day of the holy Cross. On September 14, Christians in the world, celebrate the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Did you know that the Cross is a major relic in Christianity? The Cross along with many other things are known in the history of Christianity to be called: the Relics of Jesus Christ.
These were the elements, tools, things that they connect directly to Jesus. Christians searched for these relics and considered them to be a source of a major blessing, and a source of an extraordinary power in which presence many miracles would happen, cities would be protected, huge armies will be defeated and plagues will disappear.
So what are the relics of Jesus Christ? These material traces or artifacts that means a lot in the life of Jesus and which became sacred Relics are: the Holy Cross, the Holy Nails, the Longinus Spear, the Pillar of Scourging, the Veil of Manoppello, (or the veil of Veronica), the Sudarium of Oviedo or of the Holy Cloth that covers the face of Jesus in the Tomb, the Shroud of Turin, the Relics of Aachen (Germany- where Charlemagne history tells us collected a second shroud for Jesus from the Patriarch of Jerusalem in 799 A.D. where according to Jewish Customs of the burial of the dead when they took down from the Cross the body of Jesus he was so bloody they had to put him in the first linen to clean up the blood ), the Crown of Thorns, and the Holy Coat…. Nations and kingdoms had fights against one another because of the mysterious power and the theological value of these relics. Their validation is an instrumental part of validating the Incarnation of the Lord. Not only this, but also we have Jesus’ manger in which He was born in Betlehem today in one of Rome’s most prominent Basilicas of Santa Maria Maggiore. This and more, bring us to our today’s radio show of Good Holy Sunday Morning With Fr Andre but first let us pray:
The Royal Banner forward goes,
The mystic Cross refulgent glows:
Where He, in Flesh, flesh who made,
Upon the Tree of pain is laid.
O Cross! all hail! sole hope, abide
With us now in this Passion-tide:
New grace in pious hearts implant,
And pardon to the guilty grant.
Thee, mighty Trinity! One God!
Let every living creature laud;
Whom by the Cross Thou dost deliver, AMEN.
This was the Hymn for the Holy Cross called: Vexilla Regis or the Royal Banner!
It was first chanted in while a big procession took place on November 19- in the Year 569 A.D. Emperor Justin II sent a relic of the True wood of the Holy Cross to do a historical procession from Tour to Poitier, France.
After 627 A.D. Patriarch Zachariah of Jerusalem, the Wood of the Cross and thousands of Christians returned to Jerusalem from exile in Persia for about 18 years. King Heraclius had launched a war to return them to the holy City. Patriarch Zachariah received the king in the Holy City and venerated the Holy Wood of the Cross walking to the Anastasia or the Place of the Crucifixion, death, burial and Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Before all of this, after 313 A.D., Emperor Constantine the Great in honor of the victory he received in the miracle of the Cross which appeared in the sky telling him that “In hoc signo vinces, which in Greek is: ἐν τούτῳ νίκα” (in touto nika) which literally means: win with this) History tells us that he sent his mother queen Helen to the Middle East to look for the true wood of the Cross of Christ.
In fact for the first 3 centuries, Christians were mostly talking about martyrdom and not as much about the theology of Jesus Christ. Hundreds of thousands of Christians throughout the both the Roman Empire and the Persian Empire were living under ground. Millions of Christians throughout both the Roman and the Persian Empire were severely persecuted, and hundreds of thousands of them were killed as martyrs for their faith. During that time of terrible suffering, the love for the Holy Cross and Our Lady grew a lot in both the East and the West.
Consequently, The Cross and Our Lady: became since that time 2 SIGNS OF the FAITH in Christ. Yet both became CONTRADICTED. Muslim conquests would attack christians accusing them that they worship a wood. Christians would get divided in the world around the person and role of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God as the subject of veneration, or simply a regular favored person in the life of Christ even though He came through her virginal womb. Yet while both, the Cross and Our Lady raised contradictions both inside and outside of Christianity, history tells us that they both indicated the DESTINATION OF THE CHURCH and the Call for ALL THE NATIONS to accept Salvation in Jesus Christ. It is not by coincidence that the Ship of Christopher Columbus who discovered the New world was called: Santa Maria. It is not by coincidence that since 1532, Our Lady of Guadalupe becomes the Patroness of the Americas and the Evangelizer of the natives form Mexico to the entire continent. It is not by coincidence that when the Gospel tells us about the few moments in which the Virgin Mary was mentioned in the Gospel the scene of Mary standing under the Foot of the Cross is what stands the most in the minds of all Christians during holy seek.
My dear friends in the Lord Jesus Christ, I do invite you to pray with me and to read these verses from the Book of Wisdom. I am praying them every day. I want to share them with you at the end of our show (Wisdom 10:9-14)
Jacob and Joseph[a]
9
But Wisdom rescued from tribulations
those who served her.
10
When the righteous man was fleeing from the anger of his brother,
she steered him to straight paths.
She showed him the kingdom of God
and bestowed upon him a knowledge of holy things.
She gave success to his labors
and multiplied the fruit of his work.
11
She aided him against the greed of his oppressors
and made him a wealthy man.
12
She protected him from his enemies
and saved him from ambushers.
In his arduous struggle she brought him victory
so that he might realize that piety[b] is more powerful than anything else.
13
When the righteous man[c] was sold, Wisdom did not desert him,
but she delivered him from sin.
14
She descended with him into the dungeon,
and she did not forsake him in his chains
until she had brought him a royal scepter
and power over his adversaries.
She exposed the falsity of his accusers
and bestowed on him everlasting glory.
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SUNDAY September 17- 2023- YEAR 2- Episode# 80 Good Sunday Morning with Fr Andre on KNUS 710 am: Feast of the Holy Cross
The Cross and Our Lady: 2 SIGNS OF FAITH THAT ARE BEING CONTRADICTED. They both indicate the DESTINATION OF THE CHURCH and the Call for ALL THE NATIONS to accept Salvation in Jesus Christ.
Written by Fr. A-Sebastian Mahanna
Praised be the Most Holy Name of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ now and forever Amen! Halleluia! Happy Feast Day of the holy Cross. On September 14, Christians in the world, celebrate the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Did you know that the Cross is a major relic in Christianity? The Cross along with many other things are known in the history of Christianity to be called: the Relics of Jesus Christ.
These were the elements, tools, things that they connect directly to Jesus. Christians searched for these relics and considered them to be a source of a major blessing, and a source of an extraordinary power in which presence many miracles would happen, cities would be protected, huge armies will be defeated and plagues will disappear.
So what are the relics of Jesus Christ? These material traces or artifacts that means a lot in the life of Jesus and which became sacred Relics are: the Holy Cross, the Holy Nails, the Longinus Spear, the Pillar of Scourging, the Veil of Manoppello, (or the veil of Veronica), the Sudarium of Oviedo or of the Holy Cloth that covers the face of Jesus in the Tomb, the Shroud of Turin, the Relics of Aachen (Germany- where Charlemagne history tells us collected a second shroud for Jesus from the Patriarch of Jerusalem in 799 A.D. where according to Jewish Customs of the burial of the dead when they took down from the Cross the body of Jesus he was so bloody they had to put him in the first linen to clean up the blood ), the Crown of Thorns, and the Holy Coat…. Nations and kingdoms had fights against one another because of the mysterious power and the theological value of these relics. Their validation is an instrumental part of validating the Incarnation of the Lord. Not only this, but also we have Jesus’ manger in which He was born in Betlehem today in one of Rome’s most prominent Basilicas of Santa Maria Maggiore. This and more, bring us to our today’s radio show of Good Holy Sunday Morning With Fr Andre but first let us pray:
The Royal Banner forward goes,
The mystic Cross refulgent glows:
Where He, in Flesh, flesh who made,
Upon the Tree of pain is laid.
O Cross! all hail! sole hope, abide
With us now in this Passion-tide:
New grace in pious hearts implant,
And pardon to the guilty grant.
Thee, mighty Trinity! One God!
Let every living creature laud;
Whom by the Cross Thou dost deliver, AMEN.
This was the Hymn for the Holy Cross called: Vexilla Regis or the Royal Banner!
It was first chanted in while a big procession took place on November 19- in the Year 569 A.D. Emperor Justin II sent a relic of the True wood of the Holy Cross to do a historical procession from Tour to Poitier, France.
After 627 A.D. Patriarch Zachariah of Jerusalem, the Wood of the Cross and thousands of Christians returned to Jerusalem from exile in Persia for about 18 years. King Heraclius had launched a war to return them to the holy City. Patriarch Zachariah received the king in the Holy City and venerated the Holy Wood of the Cross walking to the Anastasia or the Place of the Crucifixion, death, burial and Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Before all of this, after 313 A.D., Emperor Constantine the Great in honor of the victory he received in the miracle of the Cross which appeared in the sky telling him that “In hoc signo vinces, which in Greek is: ἐν τούτῳ νίκα” (in touto nika) which literally means: win with this) History tells us that he sent his mother queen Helen to the Middle East to look for the true wood of the Cross of Christ.
In fact for the first 3 centuries, Christians were mostly talking about martyrdom and not as much about the theology of Jesus Christ. Hundreds of thousands of Christians throughout the both the Roman Empire and the Persian Empire were living under ground. Millions of Christians throughout both the Roman and the Persian Empire were severely persecuted, and hundreds of thousands of them were killed as martyrs for their faith. During that time of terrible suffering, the love for the Holy Cross and Our Lady grew a lot in both the East and the West.
Consequently, The Cross and Our Lady: became since that time 2 SIGNS OF the FAITH in Christ. Yet both became CONTRADICTED. Muslim conquests would attack christians accusing them that they worship a wood. Christians would get divided in the world around the person and role of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God as the subject of veneration, or simply a regular favored person in the life of Christ even though He came through her virginal womb. Yet while both, the Cross and Our Lady raised contradictions both inside and outside of Christianity, history tells us that they both indicated the DESTINATION OF THE CHURCH and the Call for ALL THE NATIONS to accept Salvation in Jesus Christ. It is not by coincidence that the Ship of Christopher Columbus who discovered the New world was called: Santa Maria. It is not by coincidence that since 1532, Our Lady of Guadalupe becomes the Patroness of the Americas and the Evangelizer of the natives form Mexico to the entire continent. It is not by coincidence that when the Gospel tells us about the few moments in which the Virgin Mary was mentioned in the Gospel the scene of Mary standing under the Foot of the Cross is what stands the most in the minds of all Christians during holy seek.
My dear friends in the Lord Jesus Christ, I do invite you to pray with me and to read these verses from the Book of Wisdom. I am praying them every day. I want to share them with you at the end of our show (Wisdom 10:9-14)
Jacob and Joseph[a]
9
But Wisdom rescued from tribulations
those who served her.
10
When the righteous man was fleeing from the anger of his brother,
she steered him to straight paths.
She showed him the kingdom of God
and bestowed upon him a knowledge of holy things.
She gave success to his labors
and multiplied the fruit of his work.
11
She aided him against the greed of his oppressors
and made him a wealthy man.
12
She protected him from his enemies
and saved him from ambushers.
In his arduous struggle she brought him victory
so that he might realize that piety[b] is more powerful than anything else.
13
When the righteous man[c] was sold, Wisdom did not desert him,
but she delivered him from sin.
14
She descended with him into the dungeon,
and she did not forsake him in his chains
until she had brought him a royal scepter
and power over his adversaries.
She exposed the falsity of his accusers
and bestowed on him everlasting glory.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.