The Holy Cross. Santa Cruz. This Cross you see is carried before every Sunday mass in joyful celebration at the University chapel. So many churches and locations and institutions are named after the Cross. A symbol of our salvation. Once derided as a picture of punishment and banishment, it is our glorious strength as Our Master embraced it in its totality. Once bound to it He was committed to each one of us. So many people (martyrs in particular) have found strength and the grace of endurance holding the Cross and gazing on it profoundly. The 2016 film Silence shows how the Japanese authorities at the time of religious persecution forced Christians to defame and dishonor the Cross. Many were the faithful ones who did otherwise and went to their violent deaths. May the Cross be our strength always.
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