Based on these goals, a company then develops an action plan, detailing the steps it will take in order to achieve the goals. God’s words “This is the Way of the Cross. This is the Path of Salvation” is similar to this concept:

1. The Path of Salvation are the four key objectives of God: SANCTIFICATION, PURIFICATION, ORDINATION, and GLORIFICATION.

   This is what will be discussed in this chapter.

2. The Way of the Cross is the step-by-step process in order to realize all of these goals. These steps are discussed in the next Chapter, The Road Less Travelled.

   Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.”
   Matthew 16:24-25

The phrase “take up your cross” has been interpreted as bearing one’s suffering. The way of the cross is not a path of suffering… It is a path of freedom from suffering.

God’s simple explanation of the Path of Salvation/The Way of the Cross:

Meaning: The Path of Salvation /Way of the Cross is how the new covenant is fulfilled in each and every one of us.

During the consecration portion of the mass, the priest says: “This is the cup of My blood, the blood of the new and everlasting covenant…” Exactly what is the New Covenant? The New Covenant is the promise of God to the Israelites that states:

I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.  And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more. Hebrews 8:10–132

When we read the story of Jesus Christ, we tend to focus on His teachings and in trying to copy His actions. What we rarely contemplate on is His relationship with God, the Father.

Jesus Christ, the Son showed us what it means to be a child of God. He, Jesus Christ, as the Son, is who we are to be. It is in His relationship with The Father that one can understand what the New Covenant means ---for Jesus lives the New Covenant. Jesus expounds on what the fulfillment of the New Covenant is during the Last Supper in the book of John, culminating in His statement:

"May they all be one, just as, Father, you are in me and I am in you, so that they also may be in us so that the world may believe it was you who sent me.” (John 1:21)

When this statement becomes true for each one of us, then the New Covenant is fulfilled in us.

• The laws of God will be written in our hearts and our minds.

• We will worship God as the one and only God, and worship Him alone.

• We will know God for all that we are is Him

• We are given an absolution and given a new life. We will be reborn and given a new slate - our sins are forgiven and forgotten both by God and us.