April 17th, 2011
In this week’s bulletin, the Remembrance Meal of the Passover, the St. Vincent de Paul Bundle-up Collection, and the Blessed Trinity CWL geranium sale.
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We’ve just finished reading the passion of Jesus as told to us by Matthew. We’ve had two gospels in today’s Mass. In the first gospel, read before the blessing of the palms, we heard of Jesus coming into the holy city enthusiastically welcomed by the crowds as they called out, “blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest heaven.” In the second gospel for this feast we hear of how things go so quickly downhill. It tells of another procession, a procession we call, ‘the way of the cross’ a procession that goes out of the city to a hill called Calvary. These two processions bespeak the duality of our human response to God throughout our lives. Sometimes we welcome him in and other times we push him away.
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April 10th, 2011
Today’s gospel tells of the wonderful event of Jesus calling his friend Lazarus back to life. In John’s recounting of this wondrous event there are certain phrases that tell of the close friendship Jesus had with Lazarus, Mary and Martha. Jesus gets the news, “He whom you love is ill;” the message being, come quickly. When Jesus does make his way to Bethany Lazarus is already dead. Jesus is greeted with a rebuke from Lazarus’ sisters, “if you had been here my brother would not have died.” In other words, ‘where were you when we needed you?’ Jesus asked to be taken to the grave and on his way Jesus weeps; he joined his tears to those of Mary and Martha, he enters into their grief. When they get to the tomb Jesus makes a strange request, “take the stone away.” We can imagine the surprise of family and friends. Why would anyone want to open a tomb when it was already filled with the stench of corruption? But Lazarus’ friends do what they are told and roll the stone away. Jesus stands before the open hole and calls. “Lazarus come out.” To the amazement and wonder of all the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, his face wrapped with a cloth. Then we heard the final words of Jesus, ‘unbind him and let him go’.
In this week’s bulletin, the remembrance meal of the Passover, the service of Tenebrae and the Society for St. Vincent de Paul urgently needs a crib.
April 6th, 2011
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