Crucified Lord gives us success.

Crucified Lord gives us success.
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Until Jesus was crucified
cross was a sign of shame
and dishonour.

Criminals were crucified as a punishment for their crimes.

Jesus, who became man in order to redeem us from our sins, took upon Himself all our sins and allowed Himself to be crucified and accepted the punishment that is due to us.

From the time Jesus was crucified Cross became a sign of our redemption.

Through Jesus, the sign of the cross became honourable. 

As it is the sign of our redemption, we must take up our cross and follow Jesus in order to be redeemed.

No Cross, no redemption.

If we refuse to take up our cross it only means that we refuse to follow Christ.

We are always under the Providence of God and hence whatever happens to us, including our sufferings, happens according to the will of God.

We are here on earth to carry out the will of God.

To keep us in remembrance of God's will we make sign of the Cross for a number of times during the day.

Making sign of the Cross is a short, but very powerful prayer.

We get up from bed in the morning with a sign of the Cross.

By beginning our day with the sign of the Cross we are getting ready to accept all the crosses that come in our way as blessings from our crucified Jesus.

We must begin  every work with the sign of the Cross.

We must make the sign of the Cross before and after meals.

After living the day taking up our crosses for the love of Jesus, we must go to bed with the sign of the Cross.

When we make the sign of the cross we touch our forehead to remember our Heavenly Father.

Then we touch our chest to remember Jesus who came down from His Father to redeem us from our sins, out of pure love for us.

Then we touch our shoulders to remember the Holy Spirit who gives us the  strength necessary for our spiritual life.

As we begin whatever we do 'In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit' we can be sure of success in whatever we do.

God is the only source of our success.

Lourdu Selvam.