Week 24 of Ordinary Time

Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Monday, September 14, 2026

Today’s verse

About today

The Church lifts up the Cross on 14 September, recalling both the instrument of shame and the sign of victory. What the world used to kill, God used to save. The feast is older than any one shrine: it is the Gospel in wood. Ask today not for a cross of our own inventing, but for the grace to glory in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world is crucified to us, and we to the world.

Original – Prayer on Fire.

Scripture

Office of Readings

Philippians 2:5–11

This understanding in you was also in Christ Jesus: who, though he was in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be seized. Instead, he emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and accepting the state of a man. He humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, even the death of the Cross. Because of this, God has also exalted him and has given him a name which is above every name, so that, at the name of Jesus, every knee would bend, of those in heaven, of those on earth, and of those in hell, and so that every tongue would confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.

Text: Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV) · Office of Readings

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