Symbol and Mening of the Cross

Few weeks ago, our prayer group at Solon cover segment 6 of the Gif of Life- Death & Dying- Life & Living called “The Cross”. In order to go a little further about the material of Fr. Keating , I want to add some material from Joseph Venerosso.M.M: a poem and a link of an article about  how we have transformed the crucifix into the symbol of divine love, mercy and forgiveness.

1. The cosmic outcast

http://ncronline.org/blogs/soul-seeing/cosmic-outcast

2.THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS by Joseph R. Veneroso. M.M

Planted long ago on Calvary hill

God’s only begotten Son-dial casts

A worldwide shadow

Across continents and seas

To touch and tell us the time

When life and love and hope

Died once and for all

Only to rise again.

Each birth and battlefield

Are blessed by its sacred shade

Thought most people are too busy

Living or dying to notice

This sublime yet simple benediction.

True, some struggle mightily to ignore

Or flee far from its terrible truth

As if avoidance or ignorance could

Provide comfort, if not remedy, for

Death’s cold grip upon our lives.