In the letter to the Ephesians today, St Paul tells us that we are to be rooted and grounded in Christ’s love. This love in Christ surpasses our intellectual knowledge, filling us with the fulness of God.
Rooted and grounded in Christ’s love, we are able to face our own struggles and challenges, we are called to carry our crosses and to unite those crosses with the cross of Christ. We are called to unite our struggles and challenges to the passion of Christ. In the cross, we will find Christ’s love for us. St Paul of the Cross is the saint whose feast day we celebrate today. After serving a solider in Italy in the early 18th century, he turned to a life of prayer and developed a devotion to Christ’s passion. Paul of the Cross saw the love and mercy Christ has for us rooted in his passion. The preaching of Paul of the Cross on Christ’s passion really touched the hearts of the people of his day. In fact, Paul founded the Congregation of the Passion in 1720, known popularly as the Passionists. The Passionists added the vow of spreading the memory of Christ’s passion to the people to the traditional vows of poverty, obedience, and chastity. May we find comfort, love, and mercy in Christ’s passion and cross.
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