Today’s feast, the Exaltation of the Holy ... In a Catholic context, the cross, a Roman instrument of torture, evokes triumph over injustice. It takes something brutish and makes it beautiful.

VATICAN CITY — The feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross reminds us that the way of Christ and his followers is one of humble surrender, Pope Francis said in his homily on Monday.

Easter Sunday that falls today, marks the greatest event in history. It recalls the dawn Resurrection of Jesus Christ who was crucified on Good Friday. It is the greatest feast in Christendom. Jesus ...

Paradoxically a symbol of suffering and defeat but also of triumph and salvation, the cross is the universal Christian symbol, acknowledged by all denominations as the single visual identifier of ...

The Feast of the Cross has brought Assyrian, Chaldean, and Syriac Christians together from different churches throughout Iraq and the Kurdistan Region. Hundreds of Christians flocked to Saint John the ...

THE feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross ... In the same way, Jesus' triumph on the cross marked the end of his adversaries' power over him, and the irreversible beginning of God's reign ...

The day is also celebrated under the banner of 'Feast of the Exaltation of the ... This day is also called the Triumph of the Cross, Elevation of the Cross, the honour day of Holy Cross, Holy ...

on the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross (Sept. 14), and on the octave of the feast (Sept. 21). Unlike the Shroud (called a “sindon” in New Testament Greek), it has never been missing ...

Every authentic Christian witness comes to life from the mysterious triumph of the Cross of Christ and ... That is why, in today’s feast, the people of God venerate the cross and the Liturgy ...

devotees and the uninitiated both Christians and of other religions and creeds towards the Feast of the Holy Cross at the quaint little Chapel of Santa Cruz on Malim Hill, are the factors that ...

14--the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross--until Monday, October 12, which is the date of Canada's Thanksgiving holiday. "The Blessed Sacrament has been desecrated and our Eucharistic Lord has ...

This event is celebrated by the Church on September 14, the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, and renamed Triumph of the Cross in 1970. The Cross, then and now During the time of Jesus ...