+ We are on the threshold of the
three holiest days of the church year. Tomorrow
we celebrate the Institution of the Priesthood and the Perpetual Memorial of
the Lord’s Last Supper which we know of as “The Mass”; on Friday we commemorate his life-giving Passion and Death (which was
anticipated at that supper); and Saturday
evening (and Easter Sunday) we rejoice with the Church as we proclaim Jesus
Risen from the dead, and we welcome new members into the Mystical Body of the Church.
Our attitude ought to be one
of solemn yet joyful anticipation and reflection on such a wondrous display of
God’s love and mercy and forgiveness. He did not have to create us in the first
place; and he did not have to redeem us when we miserably failed the simple
test of loyalty that he gave us in the second place: but he did both: BECAUSE
HE LOVES US! May we love him back then, and thank him profusely by lives of
giving to others, all others, after the example of his own beloved Son, Jesus!
Hail
to you Jesus:
Lord,
King and Savior of the world!
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