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# Something for Laetare Sunday Morning
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/8311/
- Published: 2009-03-22T11:12:46.000Z
- Updated: 2009-03-22T11:12:46.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Humor, Religion, #wpChunk

![Cross.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/Cross.jpg)

****Joy in the Cross**

Today, "the Church wishes to remind us that joy is perfectly compatible with mortification and pain. It is sadness and not penance which is opposed to happiness."

Francis Fernandez, commenting on one of the most bizarre teachings of Christianity in the eyes of modernity's ethos.

We ought to call this "Counter-Cultural Sunday."