April 26, 2021 - In the Collect prayer from the Mass of Holy Monday we pray, "Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first He suffered pain, and entered not into glory before He was crucified; Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace." The self-emptying love of God in Christ is fully on display in the Incarnation and certainly at His Passion. Everything we see in Christ is so completely opposite of what Satan and this world preaches as truth regarding how we should live to be truly human. This homily compares and contrasts the philosophies of this world and the Nature of God in Christ. Our only way to life and peace is what we see in Christ at His Passion and walk the way of the Cross.