Commemoration of Perpetua and Companions, martyrs, 202
Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:18-25
“For God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength." (1 Corinthians 1:25)
Paradox again. In the cross, the values of the world run up against the values of God. In the cross, seemingly incompatible opposites come together: + God and human + heaven and earth + death and life + power and vulnerability + transcendence and immanence + the Holy and the ordinary + past and future + ruler and servant + emptying and wholeness + darkness and light +. Each time we trace the sign of the cross upon ourselves, we are signing ourselves with this paradox of God's power and wisdom in Christ Jesus, crucified and resurrected servant, trampling death by death. Who could have ever known that loving with such holy love would release such transforming power into the world?
O Crucified and loving Christ, so set your cross in us that our lives may reflect its vulnerable power. Amen
MAKE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS DURING YOUR PRAYERS TODAY.
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