But that ONE Cross that Simon bore linked him to the opportunity for your salvation and mine! How true again those words of Thomas Sheppard: “The consecrated cross I’ll bear Till death shall ...

Your unexpected, unintended, even undesired cross-bearing moment will come! And your eternal impacting decision must be made. Remembering Simon the Cyrene, who carried the cross for Jesus on his ...

From the Gospel according to Matthew. 27:32; 16:24As they went out, they came upon a man of Cyrene, Simon by name; this man they compelled to carry his cross. Jesus told his disciples, "If any man ...

Even more striking is that Christ allowed himself to be helped on his way to Calvary. In the Fifth Station, Jesus allows Simon of Cyrene to help him carry the cross; and in the Sixth Station, he ...

We are all Simon of Cyrene, writes Sr. Jeannine Gramick. We're asked to carry a huge, splinter-filled cross and we don't know why. We don't know where we're going. But when we trust, we're not lost.

Simon, a Jewish bystander who has come from Cyrene to celebrate the Passover, is pressed into service by the Romans. We don’t know how willingly he accepted the demands to help Jesus carry the ...

As we embrace the multifaceted historical realities of Black History Month, it is not irony but ethnic reality that calls our attention to those passages of scripture in Mark 15:21 and Luke 23:26 ...