Exaltation of the Holy Cross (September 14, 2025)
Num 21.4-9; Phil 2.6-11; Jn 3.13-17
The Solemnity of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross offers a message hope in the midst of suffering and death. We should never forget that the tree of death became the tree of new life.
In the first reading, we hear of the impatience of the Israelites on their way to the Promised Land. As a result of their hardness of heart, God sent a scourge of poisonous serpents to punish them. However, when the Israelites repented of their sin, God was quick to provide a source of healing and protection for them from the deadly serpents, a foreshadowing of what He would later do more perfectly when His Son was lifted high on the cross.
In today’s Gospel we hear: “God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him”. Our work in the pro-life movement ought to be rooted in the same sacrificial love. The Exaltation of the Cross reminds us that despite the darkness that covered the earth on Good Friday, the work of Salvation and the Gospel of Life was definitively victorious!
Pro-Life Intercession
For the perseverance of those working to advance the Gospel of Life and that those who repent and turn away from the culture of death are filled with the hope of a new life and salvation in Christ ...