Friday, April 18, 2025

April 18, 2025: Cross Friday

We behold the Cross, an instrument of shame, for Christ willingly bore the Cross, suffered, and died upon it in obedience to the Father.

By the Cross, He brought us salvation, joining in our sufferings so that, just as He redeemed the Cross to be the means of salvation, our sufferings, and even death, are redeemed by His Power.

We have great consolation and hope that Christ joined us in suffering, and that they will give way to Resurrection.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote about how the fate of a nation was riding that night of April 18, 1775, as the British colonies inched closer to independence.

How more so did the world change that day when Christ died upon the Cross, and brought us freedom from the tyranny of sin so that we could live devoted fully to God's Kingdom.

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