Kathryn Lopez
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— FrSteveGrunow (@FrSteveGrunow) March 21, 2016
And a homily from Fr. Roger Landry.
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4. Today is Reconciliation Monday in the Archdiocese of New York. The light is on!
Reconciliation Monday – best way to prepare for Easter! Confessions today 3-9 PM in every church in @NY_Arch @BrooklynDiocese & @RVCDiocese
— Cardinal Dolan (@CardinalDolan) March 21, 2016
Love this ad in THE REGULAR NEWSPAPER from @NY_Arch for #ReconciliationMonday. This should be every week! pic.twitter.com/O2BbNJQTDa
— CatholicMusicTeacher (@MusicEdCatholic) March 21, 2016
5. #StationsoftheCross:
Today's #viacrucis is the Eighth Station – Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem – from St Joseph's, NYChttps://t.co/4iT2HYow20
— Fr Lawrence Lew OP (@LawrenceOP) March 21, 2016
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Jesus will pour out His blood extravagantly for us on Good Friday. Bow before Him in great adoration. #HomilyTweet pic.twitter.com/iB18Rw2PR7
— Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) March 21, 2016
Offer everything to Jesus. Let Him stretch out our hearts in this direction. #HomilyTweet pic.twitter.com/tJaRfbNzEp
— Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) March 21, 2016
7. From a sermon by Saint Augustine in the Office of Readings in the Liturgy of the Hours today:
What may not the hearts of believers promise themselves as the gift of God’s grace, when for their sake God’s only Son, co-eternal with the Father, was not content only to be born as man from human stock but even died at the hands of the men he had created?
It is a great thing that we are promised by the Lord, but far greater is what has already been done for us, and which we now commemorate. Where were the sinners, what were they, when Christ died for them? When Christ has already given us the gift of his death, who is to doubt that he will give the saints the gift of his own life? Why does our human frailty hesitate to believe that mankind will one day live with God?
Who is Christ if not the Word of God: in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God? This Word of God was made flesh and dwelt among us. He had no power of himself to die for us: he had to take from us our mortal flesh. This was the way in which, though immortal, he was able to die; the way in which he chose to give life to mortal men: he would first share with us, and then enable us to share with him. Of ourselves we had no power to live, nor did he of himself have the power to die.
Accordingly, he effected a wonderful exchange with us, through mutual sharing: we gave him the power to die, he will give us the power to live.
The death of the Lord our God should not be a cause of shame for us; rather, it should be our greatest hope, our greatest glory. In taking upon himself the death that he found in us, he has most faithfully promised to give us life in him, such as we cannot have of ourselves.
He loved us so much that, sinless himself, he suffered for us sinners the punishment we deserved for our sins. How then can he fail to give us the reward we deserve for our righteousness, for he is the source of righteousness? How can he, whose promises are true, fail to reward the saints when he bore the punishment of sinners, though without sin himself?
Brethren, let us then fearlessly acknowledge, and even openly proclaim, that Christ was crucified for us; let us confess it, not in fear but in joy, not in shame but in glory. The apostle Paul saw Christ, and extolled his claim to glory. He had many great and inspired things to say about Christ, but he did not say that he boasted in Christ’s wonderful works: in creating the world, since he was God with the Father, or in ruling the world, though he was also a man like us. Rather, he said: Let me not boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Let us take our Christian calling seriously and commit to live as believers.
— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) March 21, 2016
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Are you tilling the soil of your vocation? Reach out to the Master Harvester. (Thanks to @DSJVocations for sharing) pic.twitter.com/KH5Yocqgn2
— Diocesan Priest (@diocesanpriest) March 21, 2016
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— NCDVD (@ncdvd) March 21, 2016
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