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The Story of a Red Rose

The Story of a Red Rose

Yesterday I walked through the '150 Year Celebration' Exhibition in Mount Argus Church. You enter the exhibition and there stands, 12 feet high, the Mission Cross of St. Paul of the Cross. The wood had been changed but the figure goes back 250 years.

At the foot of the Cross someone had placed a solitary Red Rose. It had a charm, a beauty and a poignancy.
What did it signify?

One can only speculate!
A Red Rose is the symbol of love.
Its placing was an act of love.
It could have been placed in joy and thanksgiving, full of gratitude and love for favours received.
It could have been placed in sorrow, an expression of pain and anguish as a result of an illness, a bereavement, a loss of job, a tragedy in the family.

Whatever the occasion the person knew that all power, all love, all forgiveness, all healing, all favours are found at the Foot of the Cross. Here all one has to do is bring oneself and one's life and place it at the Foot of the Cross. Here all joys and all sorrows become one as they are flooded with the Love of the Crucified that flows from the Cross.

May we all learn to come to the Foot of the Cross and find that liberating Love.

We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you,
Because by your Holy Cross,
You have redeemed the World.