A cross or a crucifix?

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I presently wear a plain wooden cross made from olive wood grown in Bethlehem.
 
hello, i’m new here and the other day i found a site where you could buy a cross necklace and have it blessed by Pope Benedict does anyone know of the site??
 
redrosetea said:
Which would you wear a cros of a crucifix? I think I would rather wear a crucifix, but I haven’t seen many for sale in jewelry stores…They usually show very beautiful crosses

I reacll when I was a girl it was more of a protestant thing to wear a plain cross…I have a cross I seldom wear, I prefer a miraculous medal

Is there a place I can find a nice crucifix that doesn’t look like it is made for a man only?
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I wear a plain cross; my good friend’s little brother has a terminal illness, and the family makes them and sells them to help fund his medical bills. I wear it out of support for them.

-Jeanne
 
jeanne71350 said:
I wear a plain cross; my good friend’s little brother has a terminal illness, and the family makes them and sells them to help fund his medical bills. I wear it out of support for them.

-Jeanne
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Can you post a picture of one? How much do they charge? Do they have a website, or do mail orders?
 
Personally, I wear a cross made out of three nails melded together slightly in the center. I received it at a TEC (Teens Encounter Christ) weekend retreat I made two weekends ago.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with wearing a “plain” cross as opposed to a crucifix. Many people associate the crucifix with Catholicism, but it’s still a Christian religion. And the cross is very much a part of Christianity.

Personal preference reigns, I suppose.
 
It would make a perfect gift for Easter. They are nicely made and very reasonable

I hope the family gets a lot of orders for them…He looks like a lovely little fellow, and they sound like a very fine family
 
jeanne71350 said:
adamscross.org/main.sc
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Most excellent! Thank you for posting this.

When it comes to religious “jewellery” (for want of a better world) I always prefer things that have some meaning beyond their symbolism – such as a rosary received as a gift rather than bought at a store. This to me is perfect.

I’m going to get me one on April 2 – once the Intertube worm virus has had its way.
 
redrosetea said:
It would make a perfect gift for Easter. They are nicely made and very reasonable

I hope the family gets a lot of orders for them…He looks like a lovely little fellow, and they sound like a very fine family
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Thanks. They are getting quite popular in my hometown…

But anywho, please keep little Adam in your prayers.

-Jeanne
 
i would say to wear a crucifix i have worn one ever since i converted back in 2001
have you tried your local catholic bookstore?
 
redrosetea said:
I just don’t see a connection to an empty cross…So many people were crucified, but when I see a corpus on the cross ,I see Christ

I really think a cross has sort of become a piece of fashionable jewelry, rather than a religious symbol for many, and that sort of leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth
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I think it’s important to remember though that unfortunately a crucifix is also sometimes just a piece of jewlery. I have encountered more than one person wearing a gold or silver crucifix necklace that when asked if they were Catholic or of any Christian tradition they told me “no, I just think this necklace looks cool”. :mad:
 
FromTheAshes777 said:
I think it’s important to remember though that unfortunately a crucifix is also sometimes just a piece of jewlery. I have encountered more than one person wearing a gold or silver crucifix necklace that when asked if they were Catholic or of any Christian tradition they told me “no, I just think this necklace looks cool”. :mad:
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Yeah like the whole Madonna wearing a rosary around your neck trend. In my town, there is even a gang that took up to wearing a black rosary around your neck as a symbol.

-Jeanne
 
I would definitely wear a crucifix, as it expresses God’s love for us without hiding his sacred body from us. A cross in and of itself is not holy, it is what it symbolizes that makes it a sign of holiness.

And as for a crucifix that looks more feminine, I don’t think such items are made to be gender-distinguishing. Just wear a cross that you think shows Christ’s adorable body in a most betokening way, and you should benefit from the graces it brings. 👍
 
I wear a Sinai Cross, link below. It has a different design than any Protestant crosses I’ve seen. It’s a copy of a processional cross found in St Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai. Since Catherine is my patron saint, DH got this cross for me for my birthday. 🙂 I like it because it does not look like a traditional crucifix, but it doesn’t look Protestant either. It clearly marks me as an Eastern Catholic, as my priest said when he saw it. The greek letters on the cross stand for the phrase “Jesus Christ conquers.”

gallerybyzantium.com/store/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=byzg&Product_Code=1221-B

It should be remembered that, as a previous poster pointed out, a cross without a corpus is no less “Catholic” than a crucifix. The Eastern Rite Churches tend to focus more on the Resurrection than the Crucifixion, and as such, you would not see many Eastern Catholics wearing a traditional crucifix. They may wear the St Andrews Cross, or a Greek-style cross, or any other different types of crosses–the link above is at a store that sells traditional Eastern Christian jewelry.

The empty cross reminds us of Jesus’ Resurrection, which is a glorious thing to remember and the focus of the highest of holy days on our calendar! This past month we had the Veneration of the Cross, where we bow to an icon of the Crucifixion and sing, “We bow to your Cross, O Lord, and we praise your Resurrection.” At Pascha (Easter), we sing, “Christ is risen from the dead! By death he trampled death, and to those in the tombs he granted life!” It is a glorious thing, intertwined with his death and suffering.

All this, to explain that when you see a person wearing a plain cross, or a cross of a style you do not recognize, remember they may not be Protestant, but one of us kooky Easterners. 😉
 
Adelore, I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet…but St. Paul says “…but WE PREACH CHRIST CRUCIFIED” and every time I see a crucifix it reminds me of the suffering Our Lord went through in order to offer salvation to us all! I see an empty cross and it’s not the same to me. The sacrifice just isn’t there.
 
Todd87 said:
I found a site where you can have the Cruxifixes and Crosses blessed by Pope Benedict XVI

vaticangift.com/

I cant wait to get one.
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I’m not sure about this. Is the site a susidiary of the Holy See? When my mother bought me crucifixes at the gift store in the Holy See, the nun who ran it said that everything in there had been blessed by the Holy Father (then HH the Servant of God Pope John Paul II).

I’ve read (on Catholic Answers, maybe) that one cannot sell or buy a blessed item or the blessing doesn’t remain or something, ie, it ceases to be blessed when it is bought or sold. Does anyone know?
 
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