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The Cross
 


To exalt the cross, against the backdrop of the resurrection, means to desire to experience and to show the totality of this love. It means making an act of love!

 
Address,
Feast of the Exultation of the Cross
Melkite Basilica of St. Paul
Harissa, Lebanon
14 September 2012

 
 
 
The Cross
 


To exalt the cross, against the backdrop of the resurrection, means to desire to experience and to show the totality of this love. It means making an act of love!

 
Address
Feast, Exultation of the Cross
Melkite Basilica of St. Paul
Harissa, Lebanon
14 September 2012

 
 
 
The Cross
 


Cross Jesus showed him his wounds, not to make him forget the Cross but to make it unforgettable in the future, too.

 
General Audience
St Peter's Square
11 April 2007

 
 
 
The Cross
 


On the Cross, Jesus is exalted to the very ‘height’ of the God who is Love. It is there that he can be ‘known’.

 
'Jesus of Nazareth'

 
 
 
The Cross
 


The cross is not a passing incident, but the passage through which Christ entered into his glory and reconciled the whole of humanity, overcoming all enmity.

 
Angelus Address
Castel Gandolfo
11 September 2005

 
 
 
The Cross
 


Take up your own cross, the cross of the pain and sin of the world, so as to gain a better understanding of Christ's love for humanity. Thus you will feel impelled to proclaim the God Who loves men and women, and Who sent His Son, not to condemn them, but for them to achieve a life of fullness and meaning.

 
Audience
Youth of Madrid
Vatican City
2 April 2012

 
 
 
The Cross
 


To make the sign of the cross is to pronounce a visible and public yes to Him who died for us and is risen.

 
Angelus Address
Castel Gandolfo
11 September 2005

 
 
 
The Cross
 


The eloquence of God’s love, lived to the point of the supreme gift, speaks in the silence of the Cross.

 
Silence and Word:
Path of Evangelization
Message for the
46th WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY
24 January 2012

 

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