(This feast is so great that it survived the revolution and trumps the Sunday even in the Novus Ordo. Learning to love your own cross is key on your path towards holiness AND contentment and even joy in this vale of tears. The sooner the better.)
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross… the triumphant joy of learning to love your own cross
Pick up your cross daily, and follow Him. Learn how to USE your suffering, cooperating with grace, to unite your cross to His Cross. It’s the only way. Exaltation/Exultation (I’ve seen it both ways) literally means Triumphant Joy. This needs to be our attitude toward our cross and His Cross; it’s our path to holiness. Blessed feast.
INTROIT Gal. 6:14
But it is fitting that we should glory in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, in whom is salvation, life, and resurrection for us, by whom we are saved and delivered. Ps. 66:2. May God have mercy on us and bless us; may He let His face shine upon us; and may He have mercy upon us.
