Chasing Holiness (N)
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
American Catholic- origins
http://www.americancatholic.org/features/saints/saint.aspx?id=1138
About- celebrated
http://catholicism.about.com/od/holydaysandholidays/p/Exaltation-Of-The-Holy-Cross.htm
New Advent- history
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04529a.htm
Answering Islam
http://www.answering-islam.org/Muhammad/heraclius.html
Catholic Culture
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2012-09-14
Dear Fr. Thom (N)
The True Cross
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross
Fordham University~ de Voragine, Jacobus, Archbishop of Genoa. The Golden Legend, or Lives of the Saints, 1275. [First Edition Published 1470.
‘Englished’ by William Caxton, First Edition 1483, Edited by F.S. Ellis, Temple Classics, 1900 (Reprinted 1922, 1931).
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/goldenlegend
New Advent
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04529a.htm
Archaeology
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04517a.htm
Catholic Straight Answers
http://catholicstraightanswers.com/did-st-helena-find-the-true-cross-of-christ
Saints Preserve Us! (N)
St. Robert Bellarmine:
American Catholic
http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/Saint.aspx?id=1141
Catholic Online
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=101
New Advent~ St. Robert Bellarmine
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02411d.htm
SQPN
http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-robert-bellarmine/
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bellarmine
It’s Been Said (N)
The cross as symbol:
New Advent- the cross
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04517a.htm
Wikipedia- etymology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross
New Advent- origins
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04517a.htm
Sacred Texts- history
http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/asw/asw01.htm
Catechetical Corner (N)
Ratzinger, Joseph. Jesus of Nazareth, From Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration. New York: Doubleday, 2007.
*especially pp. 1-8, “An Initial Reflection on the Mystery of Jesus”
Scriptural Secrets! (N)
Catholic Culture- Saraph
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2012-09-14
The Divine Lamp
http://thedivinelamp.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/father-maas-commentary-on-numbers-214-9
Divine Word- Saraph in the Arabah
http://thedivinelamp.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/father-maas-commentary-on-numbers-214-9
Our Salvation History: Solomon’s Wisdom (T)
I Kings 3: 16-28