Have You Looked in The Mirror Lately?
Good Friday Reflection
This is not just another Friday. This is Good Friday. Will that fact make any difference in the way we live this day? For far too many of us, today will likely pass much like any other Friday - a mad rush to get to the weekend with little thought of He Who made us and whose sacrificial and brutal death redeemed us. Where is our gratitude? Unforgettable (Source: Wikimedia Commons ) This the day so long foretold This the day of justice lacking This the day of man’s ingratitude This the day of cowardice and fear
A great way to grow in humility.
ReplyDeleteSt.Gertrude the Great writes of the devotion to the Holy Face, and represented this Face to herself as all disfigured by her sins. She writes that we shall be judged before the Face of Christ, but no longer the suffering Face. "If, then, we have been devout to it during life, surely we may hope that it will look mercifully and lovingly upon us when we stand before the judgment-seat." Jesus told her He accepts even the lifting of a pebble or straw from the ground or to utter a single word, to show kindness to any one in union with His mercy in granting this indulgence.
ReplyDeleteI only wish I could remember all these things all the time.