"We
are on pilgrimage with the Lord to the heights. We are striving for pure hearts
and clean hands, we are seeking truth, we are seeking the face of God. Let us
show the Lord that we desire to be righteous, and let us ask Him: Draw us
upwards! Make us pure! Grant that the words which we sang in the processional
psalm may also hold true for us; grant that we may be part of the generation
which seeks God, “which seeks your face, O God of Jacob” (cf. Ps 24:6). Amen."
Ending of Pope
Benedict XVI's Palm Sunday Homily 2011
"Holy Week is the time of our great
Passover: the passage from darkness
to light, from sadness to joy, from time to eternity, from death to
life. And so we are drawn to the Cross and the Cross is offered
to us, in this and in every Eucharist. The Eucharist is the place and the means
and the price of our Passover for the Eucharist is the Church held in the
embrace of the Cross.
If you are
weary, come to the altar, surrender to the embrace of the Cross.
If you are fearful and isolated,
come to the altar, surrender to the embrace of the Cross. If you are bitter, or bruised, or fragmented, come
to the altar, surrender to the embrace of the Cross. If you hunger and thirst for holiness, come to the
altar, surrender to the embrace of the Cross. If you
would ascend with Christ to the Father, if you would make of your life a
fragrant offering, come to the altar, surrender to the embrace
of the Cross. If you would leave behind the darkness
of the cold tomb, if you would know the joy of resurrection,
come to the altar, surrender to the embrace of the
Cross.
Together let us surrender to the mystery of
the Cross. Together let us receive from the altar the mystery of the Cross,
and so enter into the silence and into the
song of the great and glorious Pasch of the Lord. In a week's time, having passed over from
death to life, from the seven days of measured time into the mystic Eighth day,
we will hail the festival day of Him who triumphs over hell and holds the stars
of heaven in His hand (cf. Salve,
Festa Dies, Easter Processional
Hymn)."
Dom Mark Daniel Kirby
Prior - Silverstream
Priory , Meath County, Ireland
IMAGE: Ecce Homo (Behold, the man) ~ Artist: Joan de Joanes
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