"The supreme sign of God's love"

"The Way of the Cross … invites all of us … to contemplate Christ crucified in order to have the force to overcome difficulties. The cross of Christ is the supreme sign of God’s love for every man and woman, the superabundant response to every person’s need for love. At times of trouble, when [we] have to face pain and adversity, let us look to Christ’s cross. There we can find the courage and strength to press on; there we can repeat with firm hope the words of Saint Paul: 'Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? … No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us' (Rom 8:35, 37)."  ~Pope Benedict XVI, 4/6/12 Address After the Stations of the Cross

 

 

We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you,

because by Your holy cross You have redeemed the world.