Daily Prayer & Reflection

Our Franciscan Charism focus for this school year is: INTEGRITY AND GRATITUDE

PALM  SUNDAY - can it be here already?!  We are approaching the holiest week of the Christian calendar, bringing Lent to its conclusion and carrying us over into the most glorious day of Christ's Resurrection!   What a rollercoaster of events and emotions. How can we take it all in within a few days' time?  
 
Here we are, two thousand years after the fact and it's overwhelming to imagine that all of this really did happen to God's beloved...God's own Son. But try to imagine how those apostles and disciples must have thought and felt. Their world was crumbling all around them, all of their hopes and beliefs and dreams - now what? How could all of this happen? What are we going to do?

That beautiful, triumphant entry into Jerusalem on that  amazing Sunday morning...
That wonderful dinner they all shared, unaware of betrayal in their midst, but Jesus knew... 
That mob-driven arrest out in the Garden of Olives, overpowered by the crowd, the apostles fearing for their lives, but Jesus was calm and went with them, leaving the apostles safe, Jesus knew.....
That long, long torturous night when Peter heard himself deny his best friend....three times!....and fled the courtyard in shame, leaving John to keep vigil, looking for answers....and Jesus knew
That slow and deadly walk to Calvary, assisted not by his friends but a man names Simon, a stranger from a foreign land; wept for by many of the women who believed and followed..
And there was Mary, His own mother, if He could only console her...
That last breath mid-afternoon...seemingly nothing left to do or say, they all wandered away with their own thoughts, remembering His words....'It is finished." Was it?

The exultation of Easter is that in the darkest moments when all seems lost, hope can rise from the depths and our confidence can be renewed...The love of God reigns down in the presence of the risen Savior, showing us that all He suffered was for us...this is what love is, this is how love acts, this is what the power of love is all about...

You and I are invited, each day of our lives, to see that love, to be thankful for that love, and to live up to our role in this world by responding to God's gift to us by doing our best to share that same love with others and live as Jesus would if He were here on this earth today...nothing is too great to ask if we recognize that love of God for us...in each of us and share it. That is our call.
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