Many of Us Have Forgotten That There's A Price We Must Pay
It may not be much longer before someone comes to collect:
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
On the front end, we shrink from all that is painful, inconvenient, tiresome, irritating - the list can go on and on. We'll never get to the back end, deep union with Christ, if we don't practice what the Church has always recommended: penance, sacrifice, self-denial in little ways every day. The little ways prepare us for the bigger, tougher pain we're going to endure as disciples of Our Lord.
ReplyDeleteNo one could have explained it any better or clearer than you. Thank you Barbara. Praying you are well.
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