Sep 14 - Exaltation of the Holy Cross

+ Today we celebrate an enormously necessary and needed focal point that is precisely and exactly what we need in the dual diabolical attack on both country and church. Today we celebrate the Exaltation and Triumph of the Holy Cross of Christ our Savior, Lord and King. My homily resource has this to say about the feast: What are these Christians about, exalting an instrument of torture?

First, we rejoice that something so terrible should have been transformed into a means of redemption for the whole human race.

Second, we remind ourselves of the fact that Christianity is not an abstract

and spiritual religion. It springs from God’s direct intervention in the affairs of the world, a real historical event involving real people and, in the end, a real execution on a real cross. We may theorize and theologize all we like; but all our theorizings and theologizings are nothing without the history on which they are based. Take away that history – take away the Cross – and Christianity is nonsense.

And the central facts of the Cross and the Crucifixion are these: DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP, SIN IN FORGIVEN, THE GATES OF HEAVEN ARE NOW OPEN – AND AN ETERNAL REWARD BEYOND THE COMPRHENSION OF OUR HUMAN MINDS IS AWAITING US – this for certain and for sure.

But, since the world did not end/begin anew and afresh and fulfilled, at the moment of Jesus’ Resurrection for all of us too – it needed to play out for x numbers of years – 2000 years later it is still playing out: but we must remind ourselves now and never forget: as baptized and confirmed members of Christ we are fully armed spiritually to rule over our own minds and bodies and direct them always to what is good, kind, beautiful, helpful, truthful and merciful and Christ-like. The opposite is always an option and many have taken it – even members of the hierarchy of the church from priests to popes: we can side with the opposing force of evil, Satan, and while he waits his final placement in hell forever, he attempts to take as many as he can with him. Don’t be a sucker! Don’t side with him! Don’t side with lies, hatred, violence, sexual deviancies of all kinds, sexual atrocious sins which are also civilly and criminal detestable. SPEAK OUT AGAINST THEM.

THE CROSS TRUMPS EVERYTHING – but since the Second Coming has not occurred yet, we must cooperate in making inspired, informed and Spirit-filled decisions always for the right, the good and the TRUTHFUL – even when it hurts – even when it could cause family rifts, separations, and even violence. Right IS right, and wrong IS wrong, and the first flutterings of a “gut reaction” is telling you which is which. Being politically correct has nothing to do with the Christianity that we purport of espouse.

It is time to cooperate in the demise of the rich and the corrupt, the perverse hypocrites who are our “sainted religious leaders” – it is time to mete out criminal prosecution where true guilt lies, and this goes for political figures who are also called to lead us to the new Kingdom of God – by espousing laws and regulations always akin to supernatural laws of which they are a derivative.

WE MUST KEEP OUR EYES FIXED ON THE INSTURMENT OF OUR SALVATION – THE NEW TREE OF LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF ETERNAL HAPPINESS AND YES, EVEN BLISS! GOD BLESS YOU!