Day 34: Self-Sacrificial Love

Day 34: Self-Sacrificial Love

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 278-287 And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you. But whoever...
Day 34: Self-Sacrificial Love

Day 33: Self Affirmation

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg 274-278 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of...
Day 34: Self-Sacrificial Love

Day 31: The Cross and the Eucharist

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 260-266 The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? bThe bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? 17 Because there is one bread, we who are many are cone body, for...
Day 34: Self-Sacrificial Love

Day 30: Christ’s Sacrifice and Ours

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 253-260 You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2.5 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the...
Day 34: Self-Sacrificial Love

Day 29: The Community of Celebration

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 249-253 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people,...