1.  Every deed of Christ is a cause of glorying to the Catholic Church, but her greatest of all glorying is in the Cross; and knowing this, Paul says, But God forbid that I should glory, save in the Cross of Christ Gal. vi. 14..  For wondrous indeed it was, that one who was blind from his birth should receive sight in Siloam Cf. Athanas. (de Incarn. § 18, 49).; but what is this compared with the blind of the whole world?  A great thing it was, and passing nature, for Lazarus to rise again on the fourth day; but the grace extended to him alone, and what was it compared with the dead in sins throughout the world?  Marvellous it was, that five loaves should pour forth food for the five thousand; but what is that to those who are famishing in ignorance through all the world?  It was marvellous that she should have been loosed who had been bound by Satan eighteen years:  yet what is this to all of us, who were fast bound in the chains of our sins?  But the glory of the Cross led those who were blind through ignorance into light, loosed all who were held fast by sin, and ransomed the whole world of mankind.