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Let the Scriptures Speak
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
Carrying Your Cross
The point of making the convict carry the crossbeam was not so much to induce physical discomfort as to mark him for public shaming. It was the empire's way of saying, “Here is a public enemy! Insult freely and spit at will!”
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The Word
Embodied
John Kavanaugh,
SJ
Profession of Faith
We imagine that our foremost task in life is somehow to make
a difference ... But the only difference
we really make in this world, the only thing we can do that
no one else can do, is take ownership of our lives and give
them away.
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Thoughts
from the
Early Church
Cyril of Alexandria
When [Peter] had made his profession of faith Jesus gave them strict orders to tell this to no one. “The Son
of Man” he said, “must suffer greatly, and be rejected
and killed, and raised up on the third day.” Yet why was it not rather their duty to preach him everywhere?
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Scripture
In Depth
Reginald H. Fuller
For Jesus ... to be the Christ was not a dignity to be
claimed but a mission to be worked out, a mission that inevitably
led him to the cross. And to follow him, to believe that he
is the Christ, God present for us in human form.
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