Daily Crossestranslated

Father Demetrios Bokos writes:

When Christ revealed to His disciples that He would suffer "many things from the elders and priests and scribes" and be killed by them, but also rise "on the third day," Peter was greatly restored. He took Christ especially and urged Him with a strong voice not to undergo such a thing. It seemed incomprehensible to him, a great scandal, that such a thing should happen to the Messiah.

Then Christ said that whoever turns away from the crucified death does not have divine understanding but satanic. He thinks what pleases men. Not only did Christ raise His own cross, but every true follower of His was expected henceforth to raise daily His own cross (Sunday after the Hymn of Incensation).

The daily raising of the cross means living in accordance with divine commandments, which requires constant conformity to God's will and bearing our own crosses, as well as all our internal evil movements. This is very difficult, almost irreparable. We thought, for example, how easily and how many times we grumble over something; seriously, but usually, for completely insignificant matters; but what damage does this do among us?...