Rev. John Campoli, i.v.dei
His Love Ministries
Remember that our heavenly Father has our best interests at the forefront of His plan for our lives. Jesus always walks with us, especially in our sufferings. Cling to Him with everything you’ve got and give Him all your pain, suffering, and disillusions. He can turn them into joy, and glory and, finally, will turn our death into life.
Daily Meditation
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John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life,” is probably the most quoted and comforting line in scripture. Eternal life is offered to each of us. But the thing we must never forget is that without the Cross, there is no crown of glory.
In the day’s Gospel, Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, Jesus recalls the experience of the Israelites when Moses was leading them to the promised land. The people complained about the hardships they were experiencing in the desert and angered God, so He sent poisonous serpents, which killed many people. The Lord relented when they begged and asked forgiveness. Moses was instructed to make a bronze replica of a serpent and attach it to the end of his staff. When the people looked at the serpent-cross, they were healed. This was Jesus’ way of telling us that we will be healed if we but look to his Cross.
When he died on the Cross, he took the punishment for all our sins. On judgment day, we do not need to fear condemnation, for as Paul reminds us in Romans 8:1, “there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
But there’s more. Not only did Jesus take the punishment for our sins, but he also forgot that we even sinned in the first place. Truthfully, I wouldn’t want to go to heaven if God remembers. I couldn’t imagine standing at the gate of heaven and hearing him say to me, “John, we’ve been waiting for you!” Thank God that when we repent, our sins are blotted out, buried in the deepest sea. As we are told in Acts 3:19, “Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.”
The Cross has become life to every Christian. When Jesus accepted death on the Cross, he put an end to death and let eternal life enter. Salvation, through the Cross, became the greatest irony in human history. What was once a place of death for many had become a source of new life for many.
Today’s feast is not a mere remembering or reenactment of how Jesus gave meaning to the Cross. This feast is also a reminder that we have our own crosses to carry and die on. But, like the people in the desert, we tend to complain.
There is a story of a group of cross-carrying pilgrims on the road to heaven. There was one man who constantly complained that his cross was too heavy and it dragged on the ground, making it difficult to carry. Along the way, they passed a Home Depot. The man put down his cross, ran in, and bought a saw, which he used to cut the end off his cross. With his lighter Cross, he continued his journey. Arriving at heaven, he saw a great chasm between him and the gate. He thought that if he put his Cross across the gap, he could crawl on it to the other side. But his Cross didn’t reach. It fell into the chasm. Then Jesus laid his own Cross over the gap, picked the man up, and carried him safely home.
We look to the Cross today, lifted before us: to see the wounded Jesus who is our healing Lord; the thorn-crowned Jesus who is our mighty sovereign; the suffering Jesus who is our hope, the victorious Jesus who is our promise of life forever.
ABOUT
Father John Campoli

Since 1982, Father John Campoli has conducted healing Masses, Retreats, Parish Missions, and Days of Recollection in the United States, England, Ireland, Trinidad, Belize, and the Middle East.
A priest of the Voluntas Dei Institute was ordained in 1970 for the Diocese of Trenton, New Jersey. Father holds a Master’s degree in Theology from Mount St. Mary’s Seminary, Emmitsburg, Maryland, and has pursued post-graduate studies in Liturgy at Catholic University. From 1970 until 1991, he served the Diocese as parochial vicar and pastor in several parishes, as well as being the Diocesan Director of Liturgy for ten years.
In 1991, Father felt a call to a more consecrated life and with the bishop’s permission left the diocese to join Voluntas Dei, a Secular Institute of Pontifical Rite. He is a priest in good standing in the Voluntas Dei Institute. As a member of the Institute, he has successfully completed its Safe Environment Program and the criminal background checks as mandated by the Dallas Charter.
Father Campoli has been involved in Renewal and the Healing Ministry for over forty years. He is the author of several books and has appeared on television and radio. In addition to having produced an extensive series of CDs on healing and spirituality, he has written many articles for newspapers and magazines. Father John celebrates a Sunday Mass each week, which is available on YouTube and Facebook
When Father Campoli is asked to give a brief summary of the objectives of the Ministry, he would say that he tries to bring people to an understanding that “God is love, love is mercy, mercy is forgiveness, and forgiveness heals.”
Father Campoli is available for
Retreats,
Conferences,
Parish Missions.
Mass Cards
and Weekly Mass Intentions

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