Download Bulletin 14th September 2025

DEACON GEORGE’S HOMILY FOR THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS

“So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.”  When I was 26, someone gave me a cross, with a human figure, crucified, mounted, on the cross.  I looked at the crucified figure and lived.  God first conversed with Moses, at Horeb, the mountain of God.  There, God spoke to him from a burning bush but at a distance because he was standing on holy ground.  In those days, only Moses was able to converse with God.  And he always had to sanctify himself before he could speak with God.  When God decided to descend upon Mount Sinai, in the form of a cloud, all the people had to sanctify themselves, it took two days.  But even after their sanctification, they were not allowed to touch the mountain, on pain of death.  Only Moses was called, to go up the mountain.  The bottom of the mountain was the nearest that the Israelites could come to their God….

Complete Homily for Exaltation of the Holy Cross

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