God's Word to Us: Exaltation of Holy Cross

This blog intends to provide readers an opportunity to be nourished by the Word of God. It invites readers to read, reflect and pray the Gospel passage that they will hear during the upcoming Sunday's Liturgy. With the commentaries provided, readers have the possibility of studying and meditating on the Word. Finally, readers are invited to share their reflections, thus creating an on-line lectio divina/faith sharing group, and so sustaining each other in the faith and the love for God's Word.

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September 12, 2014

Exaltation of the Holy Cross - A

Commentary

John 3: 15 – 17

The Bridge Love Builds

The basic tenets of the Christian faith can be found all in this passage of John’s Gospel. Indeed, the Cross summarizes it all.

We can’t go to God on our own (“No one has gone up to heaven”).
God loves us so much that God does not want us to perish, but to have eternal life.
God’s love is so great that God’s only Son comes to bring us to God
That’s the only way.
And the Son does that by his death on the cross.

There, the cross is the bridge between us and God. It is the bridge built of love.