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Some
Spiritual Reading Resources on
the Cross of Christ
Gospel
Texts and Meditations
• The
Passion of Christ in the Four
Gospel Accounts
Sermons
/ homilies from the early church fathers
• What
Happened on the Cross, by John
Damascene
• A Few Drops
of Blood Renew the Whole World, by
Gregory Nazianzen
• What We
Behold on the Cross, by
Augustine
• Contemplating
the
Lord's Passion by Leo the Great
• The Lamb
that was Slain by Melito of Sardis
• The
Power
of the Blood of Christ by John
Chrysostom
• By One
Death and Resurrection the World Was
Saved by Basil
• The
Life-giving Cross of Christ by
Theodore the Studite
• Let us
too glory in the Cross by Augustine
• The
Cross of Christ by Leo the Great
• The
Body
of Christ Gives Life to Those Who
Receive It, by Cyril of Alexandria
• The
Death
of Death by Augustine
• The
Good
Shepherd gives new life beyond the grave,
by Basil of Seleucia
Reflections and
Meditations
• He Bore
Our Pride In His Body on the Cross,
by Raniero Cantalamessa
• The
Throne of Love, by Rupert,
Abbot of Deutz
• Contemplating
Christ's
Passion, by Jeanne Kun
• Jesus'
Crucifixion: 'It Is Finished', by
Jeanne Kun
• Freedom
from
Sin and Death, by Jeanne Kun
• The Seven
Last Words of Jesus, reflections
and paintings by John Dunne
• The
Shedding of Christ's Blood
(meditation on Hebrews 9)
• "It
is
Finished!" (meditation on John 19)
• The
Passion,
Death, & Resurrection:
meditations on the Four Gospel Accounts
Hymns and poems
• Oh, The
Cross (an early church hymn)
• When I
Survey the Wondrous Cross
• God has
Reigned From a Tree(a passion hymn)
• Awakened to
Eternity: a spiritual journey of poems
for Passiontide and Easter
Links to other seasonal
spiritual readings:
• Spiritual Reading on the Cross
of Jesus Christ
• Spiritual
Reading on the Resurrection
of Christ and the Easter season
• Spiritual Reading
on Pentecost
and the Gift of the Holy Spirit
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