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Here are some of the themes that we find in the Mass Readings for the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
1st Reading – Numbers 21:4b-9
Filled with impatience, the people complain against God and Moses about the wretched food.
In punishment God sends saraph serpents that bite the people and many die.
After the people pray for forgiveness, Moses makes a bronze serpent which he fixes on a pole, and those that gaze upon it will live.
Psalm – 78:1-2,34-38
“Do not forget the works of the Lord!”
The psalm recalls God’s might, and how the people often strayed.
2nd Reading – Philippians 2:6-11
Jesus “empties himself” and takes on our human form and weakness, even to death on a cross.
Because of this, God exalted him, and every tongue confesses that Jesus Christ is Lord.
Gospel – John 3:13-17
Jesus tells Nicodemus that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son…!”
Mass Readings – Exaltation of the Holy Cross (#638)
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Our sacrifices reveal the depth of our love for God and neighbor, the two greatest commandments that Jesus teaches in the Gospel of Mark today.
Mass Readings – Friday of the 3rd Week of Lent (#241)
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Jesus speaks to Nicodemus about how the Son of man must be lifted up on the Cross for the salvation of all who believe in him.
Mass Readings – Tuesday of the 2nd Week of Easter (#268)
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Following the miracle of raising Lazarus from the dead, the high priest Caiaphas prophesizes that “it is better that one man should die instead of the people” and reveals how the Lord saves us through his Passion and death on the Cross.
Mass Readings – Saturday of the 5th Week of Lent (#256)
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St. Turibius of Mogrovejo, pray for us!
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The Lord exhorts his disciples to follow his example and take up their crosses as they offer their lives.
Mass Readings – Thursday after Ash Wednesday (#220)
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John 3:16 is perhaps the most well known verse in the Bible, revealing the magnitude of God’s love poured out for us through the death of Jesus on the Cross.
Mass Readings – The Exaltation of the Holy Cross
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We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you. Because by your Holy Cross you have redeemed the world!
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The Lord reveals his identity to the Pharisees as he speaks about his crucifixion. May we look to the Cross of Christ as a reminder of the saving love of Jesus for the redemption of the world.
Mass Readings – Tuesday of the 5th Week of Lent
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Three Great Things 