December 10, 2010

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Every burden soon oppresses us, if we do not have Jesus as our Cyrenean.

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2 comments:

  1. The original Spanish is:

    Todo peso pronto nos agobia, si no tenemos a Jesús de cireneo.

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  2. This aphorism refers to Simon the Cyrenean, the man who the synoptic gospels tell us was forced to carry the cross for Jesus. See Mt. 27:32; Mk. 15:21; Lk. 23:26.

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