Our Lenten Journey with the Angels and the Saints – 23 March – Saturday in Passion Week – Jeremias18:18-23, John 12:10-36 – Scripture search here: https://www.drbo.org/
“Shall evil be rendered for good
because they have dug a pit for my soul?”
Jeremias 18:20
“The hour is come
when the Son of man
should be glorified.”
John 12:23
What Happened on the Cross?
St John Damascene (675-749)
Father and Doctor of the Church
“By nothing else except the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ
has death been brought low:
The sin of our first parent destroyed,
hell plundered,
resurrection bestowed,
the power given us to despise the things of this world,
even death itself,
the road back to the former blessedness made smooth,
the gates of paradise opened,
our nature seated at the right hand of God
and we made children and heirs of God.
By the Cross all these things have been set aright…
It is a seal that the destroyer may not strike us,
a raising up of those who lie fallen,
a support for those who stand,
a staff for the infirm,
a crook for the shepherded,
a guide for the wandering,
a perfecting of the advanced,
salvation for soul and body,
a deflector of all evils,
a cause of all goods,
a destruction of sin,
a plant of resurrection
and a tree of eternal life.”
(Reflections on the Cross of Christ
from the Early Church Fathers –
Orthodox Faith 4).
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