The Festival of the Holy Cross

What unspeakable joy this morning to attend the Divine Service for the Festival of the Holy Cross with the school children, including these two (two of my grandchildren, Lydia and Henry, and next to them, my godson, Sammy). We sang Fortunatus’s “Sing My Tongue”, Pastor Gleason serving as celebrant and Pastor Ball as Deacon. Pastor Gleason invited all us boys and girls to ponder why it is the cross and not the manger that it the symbol of our faith, and led us to the joy of Christ’s coming into the flesh in order to be our sacrifice, to give His life over on the cross that we might have that life for our own.