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| PASSION WEEK 2022 |
DAILY HOLY MASS READINGSHail to you, our King!
You alone have had compassion on our sins.
ISAIAH 50:4-9 ©
My Soul's Beloved,
You came into the world as the Lamb of Sacrifice to take away the sins of the world. You came as one of us in all things save sin. You experienced everything that we experience so no one can ever say that their suffering is beyond the realm of Your experience or Your ability to understand. You went through every indignity, humiliation, suffering, rejection, violence, and so much more that we in our human condition suffer.
The poor, the marginalized, the rejected, the forgotten, the one who knows only violence since they first draw breath, those who are so sick, so weak they can barely whimper in pain - You understand it all for You suffered it all.
No one can dare to say that God cannot understand - no one. This is why Beloved, we can approach the throne of grace and mercy confident that if we put our faith in You we will receive all the help we need to see us through.
So, Beloved, let us draw close to You, for You are the Eternal Word of God and let us learn from You to be meek and humble of heart. To love with the same love that You love us - the love that pours itself out for the other. Love is the only remedy that can heal our benighted world that is overtaken by darkness.
MATTHEW 26:14-25 ©
My Soul's Beloved,
Judas Iscariot was one of the Twelve. He was chosen by You. He was Your companion and Your friend. He broke bread with You and You gave him charge of the money even though You knew he was a thief. He was offered redemption constantly. He knew You, he loved You but he loved himself and his ideas more.
Are we not like him, Beloved? Do we not barter You constantly when we choose anyone or anything over You? He betrayed You for thirty silver pieces. What is my price for my constant betrayal of You over the course of my life?
The Gospel of today goes over the Passover meal that You celebrated with Your disciples the night of Your betrayal into the hands of Your enemies. The disciples made all the preparations just as You asked them to and in the evening You and Your disciples were around the table to eat the Passover meal. If only they knew the significance of what was about to take place at that table that memorable evening. They would have not understood very much, it was only later contemplating the event from the time of Your Resurrection, even to this day and until the end of time that we will continue to unpack the treasures of the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist that You instituted that day.
As they are eating the meal You reveal to the Twelve that one of them would betray You aghast they all wanted to know who would dare to do so. And as each one protested loudly even the one who knew it was he dared to say, ‘Not I, Rabbi, surely?’ And by Your response let him know that You knew, ‘They are your own words,’ but his conscience remained dead.
My Lord, for all the times when I betrayed You I ask for mercy and pardon. Help me O Lord never to sin again.
My Soul's Beloved,
You came into the world as the Lamb of Sacrifice to take away the sins of the world. You came as one of us in all things save sin. You experienced everything that we experience so no one can ever say that their suffering is beyond the realm of Your experience or Your ability to understand. You went through every indignity, humiliation, suffering, rejection, violence, and so much more that we in our human condition suffer.
The poor, the marginalized, the rejected, the forgotten, the one who knows only violence since they first draw breath, those who are so sick, so weak they can barely whimper in pain - You understand it all for You suffered it all.
No one can dare to say that God cannot understand - no one. This is why Beloved, we can approach the throne of grace and mercy confident that if we put our faith in You we will receive all the help we need to see us through.
So, Beloved, let us draw close to You, for You are the Eternal Word of God and let us learn from You to be meek and humble of heart. To love with the same love that You love us - the love that pours itself out for the other. Love is the only remedy that can heal our benighted world that is overtaken by darkness.
MATTHEW 26:14-25 ©
My Soul's Beloved,
Judas Iscariot was one of the Twelve. He was chosen by You. He was Your companion and Your friend. He broke bread with You and You gave him charge of the money even though You knew he was a thief. He was offered redemption constantly. He knew You, he loved You but he loved himself and his ideas more.
Are we not like him, Beloved? Do we not barter You constantly when we choose anyone or anything over You? He betrayed You for thirty silver pieces. What is my price for my constant betrayal of You over the course of my life?
The Gospel of today goes over the Passover meal that You celebrated with Your disciples the night of Your betrayal into the hands of Your enemies. The disciples made all the preparations just as You asked them to and in the evening You and Your disciples were around the table to eat the Passover meal. If only they knew the significance of what was about to take place at that table that memorable evening. They would have not understood very much, it was only later contemplating the event from the time of Your Resurrection, even to this day and until the end of time that we will continue to unpack the treasures of the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist that You instituted that day.
As they are eating the meal You reveal to the Twelve that one of them would betray You aghast they all wanted to know who would dare to do so. And as each one protested loudly even the one who knew it was he dared to say, ‘Not I, Rabbi, surely?’ And by Your response let him know that You knew, ‘They are your own words,’ but his conscience remained dead.
My Lord, for all the times when I betrayed You I ask for mercy and pardon. Help me O Lord never to sin again.
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