All of us have a Cross
 																														  
  
 All people have a cross to carry. There  is no man in this world without a cross. Those who met Christ from the  time of their childhood have for their Cross, the Cross of our Christ.  Those who met Jesus and have repented on behalf of their previous life,  have a cross, the cross of the good and penitent thief. And those who  have met Jesus and have not received Him, have in their life the cross  of the unrepentant thief. So we all have our cross. Everyone carries his  cross and ascends his own Golgotha (the hill outside Jerusalem on which  Jesus was crucified), the Golgotha of his personal life. 
  
From the homily: “A Few Flowers from  The garden of Saint John of Sinai” by Archimandrite Chrysostom, Abbot of  the Holy Monastery Saint Nikodimos the Hagiorite located in Pentalofos  Peonias at Kilkis Greece.