Fifth Sunday of
Lent
From today's Gospel:
Jesus told her,“I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes
in Me, even if he dies,
will live, and everyone who lives and believes
in Me
will never die. Do you believe this?” She said to Him, “Yes, Lord.
I have come
to believe that you are the Christ, the Son
of God,
the one who is coming
into the world.” - John
11:25-27
"He
declared that the chalice, which comes from His creation, was His blood, and He
makes it the nourishment of our blood. He affirmed that the bread, which comes
from His creation, was His body, and He makes it the nourishment of our body.
When the chalice we mix and the bread we bake receive the word of God,
the Eucharistic elements become the Body and Blood
of Christ, by which our bodies live and grow. ...
The slip
of a vine planted in the ground bears fruit at the proper time. The grain of
wheat falls into the ground and decays only to be raised up again and multiplied
by the Spirit of God who sustains all things. The Wisdom of God places these
things at the service of man and when they receive God’s word they become the
Eucharist, which is the Body and Blood of Christ.
In the same way our
bodies, which have been nourished by the Eucharist, will be buried in the earth
and will decay, but they will rise again at the appointed time,
for the Word of God will raise them up to the glory of God the Father. Then the
Father will clothe our mortal nature in immortality and freely endow our
corruptible nature with incorruptibility, for God’s power is shown most
perfectly in weakness."
Also ...remembering
Bl Pier Giorgio Frassati today…
on the
occasion of his 113th Birthday anniversary…
“I
would like us to make a pact that knows neither earthly boundaries
nor
temporal limits: union in prayer.” (to I. Bonini 1/15/1924)
Yes – let us
meet at the altar today – and pray – one for the other.
We are never
far from one another when the altar is near.
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