{"id":165920,"date":"2025-04-01T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=165920"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:57:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:57:34","slug":"what-is-your-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/what-is-your-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Your Cross?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"165920\" class=\"elementor elementor-165920\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63572ad1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"63572ad1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-13b6ecba elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"13b6ecba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Dear Friends<\/strong><b>,<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jesus said, \u201cWhoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cross would prove to be no mere metaphor for Our Lord when his mission took him to Calvary.<\/p>\n<p>The Cross was agonizing and underscores the intensity of his love for us and our redemption.<\/p>\n<p>As Christians we are called to take up our own cross with an eye toward \u201cfilling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body, which is the church\u201d (Colossians 1:24). For here on earth the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church, continues to suffer in imitation of her Founder.<\/p>\n<p>So, what is our cross?<\/p>\n<p>For each of us it can be unique: a chronic illness, an alcoholic family member, a nasty boss. Or a bad habit we can\u2019t seem to shake.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever form it takes, the cross isn\u2019t appealing. It can even grind us down, no matter how much we struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Ideally, we learn during Lent to accept the notion of a cross by our voluntary sacrifices and intensified life of prayer.<\/p>\n<p>This is where the grace of God can work a kind of alchemy, changing the leaden burdens of daily life into the gold of sanctification. For rarely has anyone grown in holiness who wasn\u2019t first brought low and humbled.<\/p>\n<p>As Holy Week approaches, it\u2019s a good moment to take stock of our Lent.<\/p>\n<p>Have we been faithful to our resolutions? Have we embraced and even come to appreciate small acts of abnegation?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not too late to commit to living the rest of Lent with fervor. A helpful boost might be our Retreat Guide on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/a-cure-for-discouragement-a-retreat-guide-for-easter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Cure for Discouragement<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And remember, the cross is a sign of Our Lord\u2019s desire for our holiness.<\/p>\n<p>In Christ,<\/p>\n<p>Father Edward McIlmail, LC<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/ask-a-priest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ask a Priest<\/a> contributor<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, &nbsp; Jesus said, \u201cWhoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.\u201d The Cross would prove to be no mere metaphor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":191774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3004,6616,3001],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-165920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regnum-christi-news","category-weekly-message","category-news-article"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"","pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.8 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What is Your Cross? 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He was an assistant publisher of the National Catholic Register and Faith &amp; Family magazine and an editor of the Zenit news agency\u2019s English edition. He has written for\u00a0SpiritualDirection.com\u00a0and\u00a0ePriest. Fr. McIlmail also worked in spiritual retreats in the Northeast, New England, the Midwest, and the South\u00a0and assisted with mission work in Mexico. Born in Philadelphia, he worked in journalism and was active in the pro-life movement before entering the novitiate of the Legion of Christ in 1992. His contributions to RCSpirituality include responding to\u00a0Ask A Priest\u00a0questions and sharing his insights in our\u00a0Weekly Newsletter.","url":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/author\/emcilmail\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165920"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=165920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}