Holy Week Wednesday April 4, 2007
Wednesday of Holy Week
April 4, 2007
In the course of the meal Jesus said, “I give you my word, one of you is about to betray me.”
Mt. 26:21
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We were set to have our Parish Spaghetti Dinner the next day from 11:30 am to 6:00 pm. The night before a parishioner came up to me and warned, “You better make the 10:30 mass short because of the dinner tomorrow.” That was the wrong thing to say to Fr. John! When someone tells me something like that I usually respond, “It just got longer.” The last thing in the world I will do is make the mass shorter. We need all of the mass we can get. We cannot get enough of his word and sacrament. We want to go deeper and deeper into knowing his truth so that we can live his truth. We need to make the mass longer. One hour a week together surrendering to him and being transformed together by Christ is not near enough for all the hours of the rest of the week. I mean, what is more important, spaghetti or Jesus? If all we do is eat spaghetti and ignore Jesus, we carbo load and die. On the other hand, if all we do is consume Jesus and forget about eating we get skinny and live. We truncate Jesus. We turn on him and turn from him and turn to our spaghetti, whatever that “spaghetti” is. We betray him and, in betraying him, deny all the ways he wants to transform this world with and in and through us.
Ultimately, it all has to do with our priorities. We all have our busyness, schedules, meetings, obligations, sports, work and the list goes on. And it is right that we are involved with the world. But how are we to be involved? Who is determining what we are doing with our limited time here on earth? Are you run by society or by Jesus? Who cares what society says? Do you want to be run by something that says that it is good to kill the unborn, adultery and fornication are the norm, and let us take God and Jesus and prayer out of everything? We betray Jesus, our Life, by turning from him and we die. It is time to make knowing Jesus in the mass, prayer, and scriptures longer. Time to stop turning on him and from him and turn to him. Now is the time confront ourselves and ask, “What is my spaghetti?” In other words, what do I consider more important than Jesus Christ and his way of life? There is only one source of forgiveness and hope and life and we care about what society says? Care about what Jesus says! And then live it.
How are you to be involved in this world? How are you to spend your time on planet earth? Jesus must answer that question for you! If we are not going to Jesus and we are going to society or whatever our “spaghetti” is, then how are we not betraying Jesus? If we deny him full access to command our lives, then surely we are serving another master. And this other master will never be able to give life.
We need to stop cutting Jesus out of our lives. We need to let him cut into our lives, our minds, our thoughts, our plans, our joys, our sufferings, or days, our minutes, our seconds, our schedules, our TV’s/computers, our work, our play, our studies, our families, our relationships, our everything. We cut him out and turn on him and from him and deny his life for us because we think something else is more important. We run to our “spaghetti”, whatever we deem more important than Christ, and die. Study the generations since Jesus and know that the only “spaghetti” that works is Jesus. Now is the time to cut Jesus in and make him the Master and Lord and Ruler of you.
Remember, Judas left the Last Supper early. He cut out on Jesus at the first mass. Think of his end. Now is the time to make mass and Jesus and prayer and scripture longer.
Live the confronted life!
+Fr. John
Ultimately, it all has to do with our priorities. We all have our busyness, schedules, meetings, obligations, sports, work and the list goes on. And it is right that we are involved with the world. But how are we to be involved? Who is determining what we are doing with our limited time here on earth? Are you run by society or by Jesus? Who cares what society says? Do you want to be run by something that says that it is good to kill the unborn, adultery and fornication are the norm, and let us take God and Jesus and prayer out of everything? We betray Jesus, our Life, by turning from him and we die. It is time to make knowing Jesus in the mass, prayer, and scriptures longer. Time to stop turning on him and from him and turn to him. Now is the time confront ourselves and ask, “What is my spaghetti?” In other words, what do I consider more important than Jesus Christ and his way of life? There is only one source of forgiveness and hope and life and we care about what society says? Care about what Jesus says! And then live it.
How are you to be involved in this world? How are you to spend your time on planet earth? Jesus must answer that question for you! If we are not going to Jesus and we are going to society or whatever our “spaghetti” is, then how are we not betraying Jesus? If we deny him full access to command our lives, then surely we are serving another master. And this other master will never be able to give life.
We need to stop cutting Jesus out of our lives. We need to let him cut into our lives, our minds, our thoughts, our plans, our joys, our sufferings, or days, our minutes, our seconds, our schedules, our TV’s/computers, our work, our play, our studies, our families, our relationships, our everything. We cut him out and turn on him and from him and deny his life for us because we think something else is more important. We run to our “spaghetti”, whatever we deem more important than Christ, and die. Study the generations since Jesus and know that the only “spaghetti” that works is Jesus. Now is the time to cut Jesus in and make him the Master and Lord and Ruler of you.
Remember, Judas left the Last Supper early. He cut out on Jesus at the first mass. Think of his end. Now is the time to make mass and Jesus and prayer and scripture longer.
Live the confronted life!
+Fr. John
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