The author G.K. Chesterton was right: Christianity is the religion of paradoxes. This weekend one of those paradoxes is put before us as we celebrate the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross.
What a strange feast this is! The cross is all too often domesticated by its familiarity in our Christian faith. We see it in our buildings and wear it on necklaces. But it cannot be romanticized. The cross was the instrument of torture used by the Romans to execute Jesus.
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