The Progress of A Pilgrim- A Journey

  The Sign of The Cross has been a Prayer by itself since the beginning of Christendom.  By His Death on The Cross our Saviour and Lord,  Jesus Christ transformed an ignominious symbol of torment to the very Sacred Symbol which adorns our Altars,  Cathedrals,  Steeples and more. Christendom minus the Cross is as good as dead. Coming back to the Signum Crucis Prayer. Somewhere around the 3rd Century A.D, St. Constantine the Great,  Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire was loosing a great battle.  But of the very things that the world,  the flesh and the Devil makes evil; God can make good. And thus The Blessed Trinity in all His splendor shone upon this pagan ruler. And a voice from Heaven sought a soul. This voice cried to Constantine, "In this sign thou shalt conquer". While some state it was THE CHIRO that we see on Altars and some believe that it was the Blessed Cross on which our Redeemer died.  As a result of his victory,  the Empero...

  Christ above in torment hangs, she beneath beholds the pangs of her dying glorious Son. -Stabat Mater No man born of woman dare say, he has endured as much as Christ or His Mother did. Every Wounds on the Sacred Hands and Feet of The Saviour had a twofold impact.  The Physical and the Spiritual.  The Physical  Body of Christ's Humanity suffered the severest of pains. Be it the Scourges, the beatings, the stripping off of His Clothes, The Crowning with Thorns -everything pained His Most Tender Virginal Flesh and tore it off His Body.   While Spiritually, His mind was "sorrowful even unto death". The Sins that man had ever committed, or were presently committing and the Sins we would commit in the future plagued The Sacred Heart of Jesus. Being God He knew how many would never use the Balm of His Precious Blood and convert. He knew how many would still choose satan to Himself. How men would still choose wealth and complain like the ancient Israelites. He kn...