The Secular Franciscan

The Blessing of the Crosses

          A priest giving a homily during lent finishes his sermon, saying to the congregation, “My dear friends I see that many of you have crosses and other religious articles that you would like me to bless: I can see there are so many to bless would you will all hold them up and I will bless them all at one time. People in the congregation were all reaching for their crosses and other religious articles when there appeared to be a disturbance in back of the church; some guy was trying to lift his wife up in the air. The priest looked at him and said, “What in God’s name are you trying to do.” The man, struggling to keep his wife up said, Father, “this is my cross, would you please bless her, I can’t hold her up much longer.