{"id":1492,"date":"2021-06-25T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2023-09-16T10:54:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T17:54:02","slug":"holy-cross-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/?p=1492","title":{"rendered":"Holy Cross Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/HC3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/HC3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11397\" width=\"302\" height=\"423\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Last Week on the 14th<\/strong>\u00a0 was the observance of Holy Cross Day.\u00a0 \u00a0This festival is to help remind us of the significance of the cross and what it means.\u00a0 The word Holy means set apart\u009d, and the cross of Christ truly is set apart.\u00a0 \u00a0For on the cross, our Lord took our sins and the sins of the whole world upon Himself and suffered the punishment and hell they had earned.\u00a0 \u00a0On the cross God&#8217;s perfect and sinless Son endured the tortures of Hell that sinful mankind deserved.\u00a0 Our sins died on the cross and unlike Christ, they remained in the tomb.\u00a0 By inspiration of The Holy Spirit, St Paul writes in Galatians 6:14, &#8220;far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world&#8221;\u00a0 The cross was where our Savior redeemed us to God the Father.\u00a0 \u00a0That is why it is so special.\u00a0 As our Hymn says, &#8220;Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim, till all the world adore His sacred name&#8221;.\u00a0 \u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a>Scripture Readings for Holy Cross Day&#8211;\u00a0 OT- Numbers 21:4-9,\u00a0 \u00a0 Epistle- 1 Corinthians 1:18-25, and the Gospel- John 12:20-33.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Last Week on the 14th\u00a0 was the observance of Holy Cross Day.\u00a0 \u00a0This festival is to help remind us of the significance of the cross and what it means.\u00a0 The word Holy means set apart\u009d, and the cross of Christ truly is set apart.\u00a0 \u00a0For on the cross, our Lord took our sins and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-year-seasons-and-festivals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11398,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions\/11398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitysv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}