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Podcast: Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
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Christ, and Him Crucified
Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 00:12:57
Publish Date: 2025-09-10 10:33:10
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Friends, this year, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross falls on a Sunday, so we have the great privilege of reflecting a bit more deeply on this marvelous and, frankly, disconcerting and odd feast. The Roman cross was a horrific, terrifying symbol of tyrannical power. And yet the first Christians emerge exalting the cross of Jesus. They don’t hide it or pretend he died some other way; on the contrary, Saint Paul says, “I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.” How do we begin to explain this?
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