Have We Forgotten The Guilty One?
(Photo©Michael Seagriff) Last week I suggested that our individual and collective loss of any sense of sin and the moral decline in our current culture might well be attributed to our failure and reluctance to ponder the Passion, Sufferings and Death of Our Lord. If you missed that short post you can find it here. In thinking further about this point, I recalled reading an excerpt some time back from an an article in an old issue of The Sacred Heart Messenger, entitled "The Guilty One". This compelling reflection may explain our reluctance to spend time at the foot of Christ's Cross . I hope it, and the words of Monsignor Hugh F. Blunt which it quotes, will provide additional fruit for your contemplation : "And we - who are we? - We are the ones who murdered her [Mary's] Son. That is another fact we too often forget! It was just after we had spiked Him to His deathbed and just before He died that He made the bequest [Son, beh...