SCRIPTURES & ART: Our suffering is tailor-made for our capacities, and by it we grow in holiness when we join it to the suffering and cross of Christ. Barna da Siena, “Christ Bearing the Cross, With a ...
Today’s Gospel combines two threads that seem superficially to lack a connection: Jesus’s demand for total abandonment of self to be his disciple and his teaching about prudent planning. The ...
The traditional 14 Stations of the Cross are: (1) Jesus is condemned to death, (2) Jesus accepts the cross, (3) Jesus falls the first time, (4) Jesus meets His Mother, (5) Simon of Cyrene carries the ...