Homily
for Thursday
3d
Week of Lent
March
27, 2024
Collect
Luke 11: 14-23
Christian
Brothers, St. Joseph’s Residence, N.R.
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| Taken from Cagliero 11 |
The
collects of the Roman liturgy are supposedly remarked for being compact and
succinct. What I just quoted from
today’s collect included 3 ellipses from the 4-line prayer. Not so brief, then.
Briefly
or verbosely, we pray to celebrate the Paschal Mystery worthily. That’s the purpose of Lent. Immediately, the Paschal Mystery means our
coming celebration of the Easter triduum.
Less immediately, it may be taken to mean our personal participation in
the passion, death, and resurrection of the Lord—our attainment of the final
purpose of our lives: to live in and
with Christ Jesus.
Toward
that end, our readings this morning implore us to heed the Lord’s commands; to
recognize that “the Kingdom of God has come upon” us already in the incarnation
of God’s Son (Luke 14:20). Christ has
given us “a sign from heaven” (14:16), viz., his paschal mystery. If we are “with him and not against him” (cf.
14:23), we participate even now in our day-to-day living in his passion and
death, and we anticipate his resurrection in the Eucharist—his body and blood
given for us that we might commune with him now, “the strong man” whose
possessions are safe from Satan’s incursions (14:21), until we commune fully
with him in eternal life.
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