The bells will be ringing to welcome the dawn on Easter morning after the vigil through the night with The Community of the Lamb. We will not be able to share with them this year, but know in our hearts the way they love and worship totally and entirely! How we love to be there with them as they very closely and powerfully go through each and every step of the Triduum.
From St JPII today...
The priestly vocation is a mystery. It is the mystery of a "wondrous exchange" between God and man. A man offers his humanity to Christ, so that Christ may use him as an instrument of salvation, making him as it were into another Christ. Unless we grasp the mystery of this "exchange," we will not understand how it can be that a young man, hearing the words "Follow me!" can give up everything for Christ, in the certainty that if he follows this path he will find complete personal fulfillment.
In our world is there any greater fulfillment of our humanity than to be able to re-present every day in persona Christi the redemptive sacrifice, the same sacrifice which Christ offered on the Cross? In this sacrifice, on the one hand, the very mystery of the Trinity is present in the most profound way, and, on the other hand, the entire created universe is "united". The Eucharist is also celebrated in order to offer "on the altar of the whole earth the world's work and suffering."...At Holy Mass, after the consecration, the priest says the words... the mystery of faith! These words refer of course to the Eucharist. In a way, however, they also concern the priesthood. There can be no Eucharist without the priesthood, just as there can be no priesthood without the Eucharist.
St JPII (2005)
It was a good thing to read the Gospel numerous times together starting the night before and again this morning after sharing morning prayer... the washing of Feet! Just now listening to mass in Rome with Pope Francis - these words jumped out and each word of John 13:1-15 as I heard them for the 3rd time...
Before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come
to pass from this world to the Father.
He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end...
Know of that LOVE of the Lord for us! He gave himself for us!
https://familysoulstory.blogspot.com/p/the-story-of-little-lamb-grandson.html
https://familysoulstory.blogspot.com/p/susan-angela-agneslittle-sister-hallel.html
https://familysoulstory.blogspot.com/p/now-stories-of-johns-4-sistersruth.html
Jesus, you wash my feet with your love and unconditional forgiveness. I am made clean as I lay my sins at your feet in the confessional and hear you speak the words of love and forgiveness over me! "Your sins are forgiven go in peace to love and serve the Lord." May we return that unconditional love and forgiveness to those around us most especially those in our domestic Church/family. "Wounded, I will never cease to love." the Lamb shows us the way to give our all!!! Jesus, we trust in you. Amen
Jesus shows us and tells us...
So when he had washed their feet
and put his garments back on and reclined at table again,
he said to them, “Do you realize what I have done for you?
You call me ‘teacher’ and ‘master,’ and rightly so, for indeed I am.
If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet,
you ought to wash one another’s feet.
I have given you a model to follow,
so that as I have done for you, you should also do.”
John 13
Today is #HolyThursday, or #MaundyThursday, when the Church commemorates the Institution of the Holy Eucharist, consecrates holy oils for the sacraments, and celebrates Jesus' institution of the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Holy Thursday marks the beginning of the #Triduum: https://
HOLY THURSDAY
Institution of the Sacraments
of Holy Eucharist and Holy Orders
of Holy Eucharist and Holy Orders
“Consider, on your knees, the mystery
of God’s love for us, that He didn't want to leave us orphans.
… For Christ knew our hunger for Himself.
… For Christ knew our hunger for Himself.
He knew that we would be walking around in the darkness
of a thousand wars and miseries throughout this life. …
This is Holy Thursday. This is when the Christ
we are talking about took an ordinary piece of bread and a little wine
and changed it into His Body and His Blood. …
Remember this day always, year after year:
the day of Christ’s infinite love, when He went away
we are talking about took an ordinary piece of bread and a little wine
and changed it into His Body and His Blood. …
Remember this day always, year after year:
the day of Christ’s infinite love, when He went away
and yet He remained, in Bread and Wine, and in the priest. …
In His immense love, Christ chose men
who would have His hands and His feet, in whom He could walk,
in whom He could forgive sins, who could lift Him up, who could give us
the sacrament of the Most Holy Eucharist – the Bread and Wine,
which He said makes for everlasting life!
The incredible love of God is visible to us! ..."
Catherine de Hueck Doherty
Danielle Rose - the Saint that is just me
EASTER TRIDUUM - HOLY THURSDAY
O Sacrament most Holy,
O Sacrament Divine,
All praise and all thanksgiving,
Be every moment Thine.
#HolyThursday #EasterTriduum #HolyEucharist
EASTER TRIDUUM - HOLY THURSDAY
O Sacrament most Holy,
O Sacrament Divine,
All praise and all thanksgiving,
Be every moment Thine.
#HolyThursday #EasterTriduum #HolyEucharist
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