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Practically everyone has known the taste of Palm Sunday, the sweetness of success and popularity, and nearly all of us have tasted the bitterness of Good Friday, of failure and rejection. What saves us from an endless round of ups and downs, what frees us from the tyranny of
events over which we have no control is our commitment to press forward in obedience to God -it is trust in God’s love to bring about Easter morning - knowing that the meaning of life is to be found in the knowledge and love of God - and in sharing that knowledge and love with those who accompany us on the way. - Rev. Richard J. Fairchild
(Know that "the meaning of life is to be found in the knowledge and love of God." May this Holy Week deepen your experience of this truth.)
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Is 42:1-7; Ps. 27:1, 2, 3, 13-14; Jn 12:1-11
R. The Lord is my light and my
salvation.
The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom should I fear?
The LORD is my life's refuge;
of whom should I be afraid?
When evildoers come at me
to devour my flesh,
My foes and my enemies
themselves stumble and fall.
Though an army encamp against me,
my heart will not fear;
Though war be waged upon me,
even then will I trust.
I believe that I shall see the bounty of the LORD
in the land of the living.
Wait for the LORD with courage;
be stouthearted, and wait for the LORD.
USCCB lectionary
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Here is my servant … he shall bring forth justice
to the nations.
Yesterday we entered Jerusalem with Jesus in triumph. Today we begin to walk with him, step by step, up Calvary’s hill. Although he is the suffering servant, Jesus is not a passive victim. His obedience to God is free and loving. We, too, are called to serve, freely and in love, all
whom God places in our path. The most mundane act of unselfish service done in the love of God helps to spread the Gospel message of God’s astonishing love and forgiveness. The way of the cross may be hard and dark, but it leads to the blazing, glorious light of Easter.
We praise you, Lord, for sending
your Son Jesus to be our Savior and for calling us to share in his mission.
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Theological Gems from Emile Merch's Theology of the Mystical Body - selected by Jim and Tyra Arraj
Book III: Christ
Chapter 9: Christology and the Mystical Body
219. Union with Being itself affects being as being.
Since the subsistent Being is more interior to every being than any being is in itself, the influence can be more interior, more "natural" to such a being, than its own being. In the Incarnation, therefore, where the influence is total, it affects totally the being of the assumed humanity. The Man who has this humanity
will be God. He will have no other ultimate being or personality than a divine personality.
220. God’s action can be penetrating and incisive to the last degree, and has to be. But the nature thus permeated through and through remains intact and virginal, and clings all the more firmly to its being, just as a crystal ball penetrated by the sun remains transparent, but with a transparency that has
become brilliant.
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