Wednesday of Holy Week Homily

4/8/2020

Deacon Eric is a Permanent Deacon in the Archdiocese of Regina.
Wednesday of Holy Week
Isaiah 50:4-9
Psalm 69
Matthew 26:14-26

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Tim Nickel

4/9/2020 12:44:13 am

How true it is that our slide takes place in gradual steps, which may culminate in a great fall like that of Judas, or more often than not, in the continual small betrayals that, as you said, neither ourselves nor those around us notice, having become part of how we all get along and become “good people” seduced by the world, often at the expense of neighbours near and far. I think of Kierkegaard saying that "we notice immediately the loss of an arm or a leg, or even five dollars, but not the loss of our own soul.” During Holy Week I pray I may feel the horror of Christ’s passion, not to dwell on it or become depressed by it, but to be all the more shaken by the realization Jesus obediently took on the fate of a condemned criminal, a fate that by all rights should have been our own, and in that realization, to be cast on God’s mercy at the foot of the cross, with the renewed hope and joy of a redeemed life (lest, as Scripture warns us, we crucify Christ again).

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