College Venerates Newfound Fragment of True Cross on Feast

This morning, as College officials examined various articles that had long ago been stored in a campus safe, they discovered a most precious relic — a fragment of the True Cross.

“That we found this sacred item, a 2,000-year-old relic of the very Cross upon which Our Lord died, is an incredible blessing in its own right,” says Anne Forsyth, director of college relations. “More incredible, though, is that we found it today — on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. It is a very tangible, providential reminder of Christ’s great love and sacrifice for us.”

Mrs. Forsyth suspects that the relic was gifted to the College several decades ago, before the construction of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel, which houses an elegant reliquary. The fragment of the Cross, she notes, is contained within a four-inch, silver crucifix that observers apparently did not recognize as a reliquary. Students and others will have the opportunity to venerate this sacred fragment at this evening’s Mass in Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel.

“Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, He emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, He humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

— Phil: 2:6-11