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RISEN LIFE IN JESUS

“Since you have been raised up in company with Christ, set your heart on what pertains to higher realms where Christ is seated at God’s right hand. Be intent on things above rather than on things of earth.” –Colossians 3:1-2 Alleluia! Jesus is risen! His tomb is empty! “Death has no more power over Him” (Rm 6:9). Alleluia! Because we’ve been baptized into Christ, we have died with Him (Rm 6:3). “If we have been united with Him through likeness to His death, so shall we be through a like resurrection” (Rm 6:5). This very day we have already “been...

RISEN LIFE IN JESUS

“Since you have been raised up in company with Christ, set your heart on what pertains to higher realms where Christ is seated at God’s right hand. Be intent on things above rather than on things of earth.” –Colossians 3:1-2 Alleluia! Jesus is risen! His tomb is empty! “Death has no more power over Him” (Rm 6:9). Alleluia! Because we’ve been baptized into Christ, we have died with Him (Rm 6:3). “If we have been united with Him through likeness to His death, so shall we be through a like resurrection” (Rm 6:5). This very day we have already “been...

DID YOU MISS ME?

“I opened to my Lover – but my Lover had departed, gone. I sought Him but I did not find Him; I called to Him but He did not answer me.” –Song of Songs 5:6 On this Holy Saturday, there is no Mass, no Eucharistic presence in the tabernacles of our Churches, no Eucharistic readings proclaimed for the world to hear. Jesus, our Life (Jn 11:25; 14:6), has fallen to the ground and died (Jn 12:24). He has been buried in the tomb, and we who are baptized into Him have also been buried with Him (see Rm 6:4). We...

“IN THE SHADOW OF YOUR WINGS” (PS 36:8)

“I am thirsty.” –John 19:28 Jesus was thirsting for the people of Jerusalem to “come to” Him (see Mt 11:28). He told them: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem…how often have I yearned to gather your children, as a mother bird gathers her young under her wings, but you refused Me” (Mt 23:37). Jesus thirsted for a people who would accept His saving love, listen to His words, and put them into practice (Mk 4:8-9). Jesus poured out His life for His beloved people, teaching, healing, and working miracles in their sight. “Despite His many signs performed in their presence, they refused to...

THE SACRAMENT OF HUMILITY

“This is My body, Which is for you.” –1 Corinthians 11:24 Jesus “humbled Himself” (Phil 2:8). He emptied Himself of the glory He shared with the Father in heaven (Jn 17:5). He stooped down to caress and wash the sandal-clad, road-dusty feet of those who would shortly betray, abandon, and deny Him (Jn 13:5). He set aside His glory and took on the appearance of bread and wine to become one body with us. In His Eucharistic Body, given for us (1 Cor 11:24), He humbly became one with us who have participated in crucifying Him through our sins (Catechism...