Holy Cross Day
What a wonderful fair we had last Saturday. It was a great to see the Church and wider community come together, relaxed and Spirit filled. A huge thank you to the Organising Committee of Nicola, Meredith and Robyn, the stall co- ordinators and all the many helpers who made it all go so well. Thank you to all of you, the St Marks Church family.
Last Sunday we celebrated Holy Cross Day. One of the actions that some of us do is “Cross ourselves”, make the sign of the Cross over our bodies at certain times. This is not something that you “should do”, or “must do” but you “can do”. For those of us who do, it is not an empty ritual but is physical action, using our bodies to communicate an inner significance.
We were marked with the cross at our baptism as a sign of our first allegiance to Christ, and we recall that allegiance whenever we make the sign on our bodies. We make the sign of the cross while invoking the name of God the Holy Trinity as a self-defining statement that we are Christians and we are in communion with the one true God who we worship.
We can also do the same with holy water, (in our case from the font) when we enter or leave the church. It is also often that we cross ourselves as a sign that we gather or act in the Lord’s name, whenever we receive a blessing, especially the blessing of absolution, before receiving Holy Communion and also when we commend the dead to God.
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