Bishop Odeh: Salvation is achieved on a rejected tree

Metropolit, Beirut and its dependencies, Bishop Elias, the return of the Mass of the Cross, the Cross of Saint George, in Beirut, in the presence of a crowd of believers.
After reciting the gospel, the bishop gave a lengthy sermon in which he said: “We celebrate today after the lifting of the generous and spatial cross, we contemplate a great secret that the Apostle Paul declared when he said:“ The word of the cross with the deceased is ignorant, and as for us, we are the loyal ones, it is the power of God. John the Golden Oral and Saint Athanasius the Great, to show how God transformed a execution tool into a crown of dignity, and how Christ presented himself on the cross to nullify the rule of death and restore humanity into non -corruption. The church does not celebrate pain and sadness, but with victory and joy. To learn how to measure all our affairs on the scale of the cross, we reject pride and ask for humility, and we escape from hatred to live in love, so we really become the sons of the Resurrection.