Cross that is not going well is yours

"If anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me" (Mark 8.34).
GOES WELL IF YOU DO NOT CROSS IS PRECISELY THE YOURS!
Cross that is not going well is precisely yours.The Cross is not a dress or a pair of shoes, you should come to order.The cross is never going to suit your tastes, your desires, your particular requirements.Cross tears, bruises, spider skin boots, crushes, bends, breaks, leads to suffering ...And yet, no doubt. To be truly yours, Cross must not go well.On either side of the Cross will never look good.Neither Christ his Cross was doing well.Did not do well the treachery of Judas, the dream of the Apostles in the Garden of Getzemaní, the conspiracy of the enemies, escape from friends, the denials of Peter, the taunts of the soldiers, the fierce cry of the people: Crucify him, crucify him.You see: The Cross so that it is, do not go well. Never will be fine.That Cross that comes up in the wrong moment:A disease that comes as you have so much to do, and that throws you to the ground all those projects you have. It's yours.That Cross would never have expected:He hit a coward and a traitor who has come from a friend, the phrase that had the snap and the pain of a whip, that slander has left you breathless - it's your Cross.That seems unfair Cruz you: - "This should not ever let me me" - is the cross just for you.That cross you seems excessive, absurd, disproportionate to your weak forces - "too: I can not go!" - Does not belong to others, is yours.-Do not flatter yourself. There is no cross to the measure. To be Cross has to be out of action. Trying to find. Register everywhere. It looks so good.
Rate everything with care and, finally find a cross that you do well Throw it! That certainly is not yours, not yours.Signs to know if yours is a cross are puzzling:Unpredictability, disgust, upset impossibility, irrelevance, a sense of weakness, sense of failure, lack of courage, disappointment ...If you are presented with a cross and disagreeable, unpleasant, too, too harsh, unbearable, do not hesitate to carry it, you own it.Moreover, no matter that is not yours-when you leave and that the upload will be on the way, through a certain familiarity to be established between you and her.Maybe at first you present as if it were strange. Then find that is truly yours.Just taking it you will realize that this Cross is yours.This does not mean, well understood, your relationships between you and the Cross are idyllic, that everything is going well.With the Cross there is apparently nothing that is going well. Deep grooves mark the cross on his back and breaks the heart.But despite everything, will establish a certain familiarity. A familiarity suffered, sustained and cheerful but justified by the sense that it discovers little by little, walking with her towards the Resurrection.And even when the meaning appears clear, there is always the faith that invites you to let you lead by the hand of someone who knows ...You who do not have to know that He knows, even when you're in the dark. "Pray have faith and do not worry."Forward, then with the cross which is not going well.With the cross is not made for you.What counts is that the Cross is made for you.It is essential that you be tailored to Christ.

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I love Santa Cruz put on Mount Calvary
In you my dear Jesus died,
To give me eternal light
And get rid of otherwise.

We adore you O Christ
And we bless
Because by your holy cross
Redeemed the world and to me a sinner. Amen.

Holy Cross
Digna Cruz
Divine Cross
For Jesus who died on You
Away all evil from my

The Holy Cross of Heaven down
And spread over me
And from all harm and danger
The Holy Cross defend me

 

LENT 2012.
 Capuchin Friar Pablo