Bp Morlino on the new Cathedral Stations and the Holy Cross

Photo via Laetificat Madison

This past week we celebrated the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross. There is no shortage of crosses in our lives, and we pray for one another and lift one another up as we encounter those crosses. It is through those crosses, which some of you experience right now, that can come the Resurrection victory. So engage the struggle to embrace your cross and do not forget the triumph which comes by way of our following the Lord.

On the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross, I had the opportunity to bless a new Way of the Cross path that has been created on the site of our once and future cathedral. As we look forward to the great day of the dedication of our new cathedral, some generous people have stepped forward and have created a prayer garden, with beautiful plantings and a path of paving stones which mark the sorrowful way of Our Lord’s suffering and death. We had beautiful weather for the blessing on the Feast of the Holy Cross, and a beautiful gathering of people to pray together. The stations, which are beautifully arranged, have been blessed and are there for our prayer, but one day there will be a very beautiful cathedral there.

It is necessary that we have a cathedral and that day will come. Our delay has a lot to do with our economy, but there cannot be a diocese without a cathedral. The Way of the Cross is a beautiful sign that the way we will get to a new cathedral in the same way that we get to every good thing; the way we get to every experience of resurrection, that is, the way of the cross.

The Feast Day of the Holy Cross is so very important to us because the cross is the sign of our salvation, the sign of Christ’s victory. As one of our young priests mentioned in his Mass on the feast day, there are many signs in our world, around which people rally — the Badgers have their big red and white “W,” and the Packers have their “G,” outlined in green and gold. These are easily identifiable ways of indicating the very “culture” that they embody.

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