Infinite Tide
Photo by Nikolai Endegor Lections: The Exaltation of the Holy Cross ( Holyrood ), AD 2026 A You may find the accompanying children’s sermon here . Homily: Lord, we pray for the preacher, for you know his sins are great. Grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Allow me this morning to tell you a tale: one that begins in familiar waters, but then veers off along paths now largely forgotten. I shall recount it to you as I heard it in the Holy Land. By traditional reckoning, Jesus Christ was arrested on a Thursday evening, tried secretly overnight, and brought to execution midmorning that Friday. He then suffered the most painful and humiliating punishment that Rome in all of her calculating, sadistic wickedness could devise. The cross was a sign of horror throughout the Roman world. Victims of crucifixion, ragged and bloody from torture, were nailed naked to the post and crossbar through their ankles and their wrists. Clusters of...
