WEDNESDAY REFLECTION
Mid-week Reflection:
Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time
The bishop has given an extended dispensation from attending Holy Mass on Sundays and Holydays of Obligation. Why is it necessary for him to do so? Because, unless we have a genuine excusing cause such as sickness or caring for the seriously sick, then, we have a duty and privilege of attending Mass each Sunday. It is a duty and a privilege because each time Mass is celebrated, “whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup you are heralding the Lord’s death until He comes” (1 Cor 11:26). Just think of this, leaving aside the notion of obligation, each time we have Mass in our beautiful school oratory, we are transported mystically and sacramentally to Calvary. We are now only thirteen years away from celebrating the two-thousandth anniversary of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection. How blessed you will be to live until then! An event two thousand years ago which is the price of our salvation. The Gift from God who loves us so much. The Gift of the Eucharist enables us to rid ourselves of all that is messy, all that is immoral, all that is sinful in our lives. This may not be easy to do. But by faithfully receiving the Body and Blood of Our Lord, Jesus will give us the strength necessary to complete in our lives, that for which God made us. That’s why we need to attend Holy Mass…..and to do so lovingly, willingly, eagerly and not simply because of an obligation.
Let us Pray:
O God, who in this wonderful Sacrament have left us a memorial of your Passion, grant us, we pray, so to revere the sacred mysteries of your Body and Blood that we may always experience in ourselves the fruits of your redemption. Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Monsignor Monaghan
