Making Cross More
2nd Sermon on the Cross
Festival of the Cross continues
The Festival of the Cross is also called the Exaltation or Elevation of the Cross. It is an important occasion of Holy Church. This sermons continues a focus on the history and the power of the cross.
This sermon given on Sunday September 21, 2008 by Fr John Brian Paprock at Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Mission Chapel, Madison, Wisconsin.
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The cross in Eastern Christianity has a complex history with surprizing variety and symbology.
"The Holy Cross has illuminated, and it decorated the sky with stars and showed everything like the sun!" ~ from Ethiopian Orthodox blessing at Meskel
"No longer does the flaming sword guard the gate of Eden, for a marvelous quenching is come upon it, even the Tree of the Cross." ~ from Greek Orthodox Kontakion
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