RB: Ch 45 Mistakes in the Oratory
Mass: 2 Sm 5:1-3; Resp Ps 122; Col 1:12-20; Lk 23:35-43
HEART OF JESUS, KING AND CENTER OF ALL HEARTS,
HAVE MERCY ON US.
As we celebrate this glorious solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, we place ourselves into "the tender mercy of the heart of our God by which the daybreak from on high will visit us" (Lk 1:78), and pray, Heart of Jesus, King and Center of all Hearts, have mercy on us. "Shine on us those who sit in darkness and death's shadow, to guide our feet into the way of peace" (Lk 1:79).
Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.
He was suffering, too,
the good thief,
abandoned
with no family to comfort
nor friends to help.
Who remembers a common thief,
dying on a cross
for the wrong
he has done?
Who will stand by him,
claim his friendship?
The thief prays,
"Remember me when thou comest
into thy kingdom."
Sad,
sorry,
repentant,
broken almost,
anxious,
he sought to make amends.
The answer comes:
"This day thou wilt be with me
in paradise."
This day-
could he have expected that?
This day-
when his final agony came,
he was
at peace.
Death came,
not a foe,
but a gentle friend.
This day …
A humble, contrite heart
is never spurned,
Sorrow for sin
never too late;
wrongdoing never so great
that forgiveness
will be refused.
Others may ignore,
forget, lose interest.
He never does.
He cannot forget
nor cease to wait
for that word of sorrow
for our wrongdoing,
a word that heralds
our entry into his kingdom.
Do not despair
nor give up hope;
however far
you may have wandered.
whatever wrong
you may have done,
despair must never be
a word for you.
He wants us,
wants us more
than we have
ever wanted him,
or ever could.
"This day you will be with me in paradise,"
it will be said
to you when you have prayed,
"Remember me ..."
(Basil Hume, Hope from the Cross: Reflections on Jesus' Seven Last Words, pp. 29-32)
As we celebrate this glorious solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, we place ourselves into "the tender mercy of the heart of our God by which the daybreak from on high will visit us" (Lk 1:78), and pray, Heart of Jesus, King and Center of all Hearts, have mercy on us. "Shine on us those who sit in darkness and death's shadow, to guide our feet into the way of peace" (Lk 1:79).
He was suffering, too,
the good thief,
abandoned
with no family to comfort
nor friends to help.
Who remembers a common thief,
dying on a cross
for the wrong
he has done?
Who will stand by him,
claim his friendship?
The thief prays,
"Remember me when thou comest
into thy kingdom."
Sad,
sorry,
repentant,
broken almost,
anxious,
he sought to make amends.
The answer comes:
"This day thou wilt be with me
in paradise."
This day-
could he have expected that?
This day-
when his final agony came,
he was
at peace.
Death came,
not a foe,
but a gentle friend.
This day …
A humble, contrite heart
is never spurned,
Sorrow for sin
never too late;
wrongdoing never so great
that forgiveness
will be refused.
Others may ignore,
forget, lose interest.
He never does.
He cannot forget
nor cease to wait
for that word of sorrow
for our wrongdoing,
a word that heralds
our entry into his kingdom.
Do not despair
nor give up hope;
however far
you may have wandered.
whatever wrong
you may have done,
despair must never be
a word for you.
He wants us,
wants us more
than we have
ever wanted him,
or ever could.
"This day you will be with me in paradise,"
it will be said
to you when you have prayed,
"Remember me ..."
(Basil Hume, Hope from the Cross: Reflections on Jesus' Seven Last Words, pp. 29-32)
THE LORD SITS ENTHRONED ABOVE THE FLOOD!
THE LORD REIGNS AS KING FOREVER!
MAY THE LORD GIVE MIGHT TO HIS PEOPLE;
MAY THE LORD BLESS HIS PEOPLE WITH PEACE.
(Ps 29:10-11)
Today's photo: Christ Enthroned, through the hand of our Sister Suzanne.
© Gertrude Feick 2019
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