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Wednesday 31st
Week OT Charles Borromeo
St. Luke’s Institute
November 4, 2015
CROSSES GETTING OUR ATTENTION
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It is the carrying of our individual crosses
that can press us into an awareness of where God is meeting us on the road of
life
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Without crosses we might well take little notice
of God, much less develop a relationship with him
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We are called to notice and respond when the way
of the cross merges with paths of our own choosing and changes our journey
abruptly
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Encountering a cross on our journey can be like an
unexpected storm
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Confusing though it may be, there is a stark
promise beneath the weight of any cross we bear
CROSSES & THEIR
GIFTS ++++++++++++++++++++++++
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We usually experience the cross and its promise
in the concrete reality of our lives
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Crossbeams of illness, sudden death,
hopelessness, unabated grief, and incomplete understandings are all familiar crosses
upon R shoulders
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Broken relationships and hope turned to
affliction weigh down our hearts
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2 become conscious of the cross we carry, as
well as 2B moved by cross of others, is to become connected 2 the action of God
thru the community
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Life demands that we both carry our cross and to
help others to do the same
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Besides alleviating someone’s pain &
building community, there’s a 3rd fruit in carrying others’ burdens,
the doing of it lessens and deepens the meaning of our own crosses
CONCLUSION
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The way of the cross is present in some form
every day our lives
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The consciousness we have of many small changes
of heart on our journey invites us to surrender the crossbeam in this moment,
when I feel most vulnerable
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It also invites us to carry it for others when
the living memory of God moves us to acts of compassion
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