x This one is hard to figure out...

A couple years ago, I attended the Lakeland Revival. Also known as the Florida Outpouring, this movement rocketed old fashioned tent revivals into the 21st century. (You might say, "Something like Oral Roberts on steroids.")  Utilizing every available technology - including simulcasts on the internet, giant flat screens, rock musicians, and swooping boom cameras - the organizers had generated international excitement out of a global audience. The claimed miracles were numerous and many of the witnesses I heard sounded very credible.

+ The True Cross???

A few weeks ago, I was entrusted with a reliquary that ostensibly contains a splinter from the True Cross. An aging priest had found it, years ago, in the attic of the home where he and a number of priests had been living. He asked me to try to make it available to Catholic churches for viewing during Holy Week, each year. This year it will be on display at a church in Florida.

As you can see, below, the reliquary is highly ornamented with golden accents, pearls and Latin inscriptions. I do not believe the reliquary itself is extremely old because I have seen it, or at least something similar, advertised in a recent catalog. The relic, itself, is the small splinter at the center of the ornamented cross. It is secured with a strand of red thread.