This evening we have the Eucharist; the Maundy or Mandatum, the servant-king washing the disciples’ feet; and we have Christ going out to the garden and his death. This is a Feast that should remind us of the Church’s mission, to love.
I like this reflection, written in wartime by Father Andrew SDC, which reminds us of this truth about the Church which so often is obscured.
The Church is not an organisation managed by men but an organism indwelt by God, and for that reason you should go to Holy Communion on Sundays and great Festivals if you can. Père Huvelin, Baron von Hügel’s confessor, told him to say a decade of the Rosary every day to keep him in the company of ordinary, simple people in the Church. I am sure it is your duty to go as regularly as you can to Holy Communion to keep yourself in the Body of Christ.
Bad as the world is, ‘God so loved it that he gave’ his blessed Son for it.
Bad as the Church is, ‘Christ loved the Church and gave Himself for it.’
Bad as I am, ‘He loved me and gave himself for me.’
Those are the three loves of God: the world, the Church, the individual.
God bless and keep you in His tender love.
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