Ave crux spes unica. Hail to the Cross, our only hope.
What are the implications of this hope for Christian discipleship as it is lived in this world?
The English priest and apologist, Msgr. Ronald Knox (1888-1957), whose death anniversary is August 24, preached a series of six sermons on the Cross of Christ in 1928. Knox meditates upon the contrast between the world’s perception of Christians and the reality of those whose lives are conformed to the Cross. For his preaching, Knox selected a Pauline text, 2 Corinthians 6:4:
In all things let us exhibit ourselves as ministers of God…by evil report and good report, as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown and yet known, as dying and behold we live, as chastised and not killed, as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing, as needy, yet enriching many, as having nothing and possessing all things. …
