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26 mar 2018
29-31/03/2008 – Paschal Triduum - Year B

29-31/03/2008 – Paschal Triduum - Year B

Thursday

Reading 1, Exodus 12,1-8.11-14 Psalm 115 Reading 2, First Corinthians 11,23-26 Gospel, John 13,1-15

 

We are celebrating the joy of the entire Church for the Institution of the Eucharist and the Priesthood of the New Covenant. Jesus is giving us His Body and His Blood. He gives them to us as food for us, as inheritance of His heart. He gives them to us forever. He gives them to us as an act we need to repeat among ourselves, in order to keep always alive and effective His presence, His love and His word!

What he is really interested in is apparently love itself. And today He is showing us how our reciprocal love needs to be, the love that needs to keep our community together, the Church. It is the type of love that knows how to serve, the type of love that is not afraid to touch the dirty feet of a brother, that does not condemn a brother because of his needs, but kneels in front of him in order to wash and dry him.

Not only Jesus wants that we do this to others, but also that we let others do it to us, with humility, with serenity. We find out that exactly when we let ourselves be served with humility by our brothers, thinking of them as gifts from God to us, then our communion grows! When we live this communion, then we can celebrate His eternal and concrete love, the love that gives Body and Blood, the love that makes us joyful servants of each other.

We also thank Jesus for the priest that is celebrating Mass. The fact that we can see priests in front of us and with us is another gift given by the Lord today! Not only the priests today say thank you, but the entire Church does. Jesus, we love you! We show it to you loving each other and serving each other. We eat Your Body in order to have the joy and strength for washing our brothers’ feet. While we eat your body we become your limbs, completely yours, ready to give up our life. Glory be to you!

 

Friday

Reading 1, Isaiah 52,13-53,12 Psalm 30 Reading 2, Hebrews 4,14-16; 5,7-9 Gospel, John 18,1-19,42

 

Today the prophet Isaiah shows us again the sufferings of the Servant of Yahweh and the fruits of His death for the benefit of sinners. The letter to the Hebrews picks up the same topic as well: “Christ… became for all who obey him the source of eternal salvation”!

The reading of the passion according to John shows us Peter cutting off the right ear of the servant of the High Priest, whose name is Malchus (=king!). The right ear is the spot touched with the blood of the sacrifice during the consecration of the priest. Now the people does not have a high priest anymore and it does not have royalty any more. Jesus is the true high priest that is able to offer himself, He is the true king who represents God’s authority, as Pilate happened to say. Jesus came out in order to give himself up when they arrived, searching for Him in the garden! Today our love for Jesus grows, a love that we offer Him while welcoming us too, in our house, His Mother, at the foot of the cross.

 

Saturday

Reading 1, l. Genesis 1,1-2,2; 22,1-18; Exodus 14,15-15,1; Is 54,5-14; Isaiah 55,1-11; Baruch 3,9-15.32-4,4; Hezekiah 36,16-28 Psalm 117 Reading 2, Second Romans 6,3-11 Gospel, Mark 16,1-7 or Luke 24,13-35

 

The holy Easter Vigil offers us a lot of signs and a lot of readings in order to better understand the greatest and most glorious mystery of all! Fire, candles, water, sounds, songs, flowers, all of them to show the joy of having found the tomb empty! Readings about creation and history of the people in order to understand that everything has been done and lived in order to get to this night! All men’s sins and infidelities as well become a song of praise tonight: it is because of them that the Savior has come, has died and He has risen again: “There is no need to be so amazed. You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified: he has risen, he is not here!