WEDNESDAY OF HOLY WEEK: entering the Passover in our lives

Posted on April 5, 2023 by franksantucci

“My appointed time draws near;
in your house I shall celebrate the Passover with my disciples.”

The disciples then did as Jesus had ordered, and prepared the Passover.

Mt 26: 18-19

As I read St. Eugene’s writings, I constantly hear echoes of his Good Friday experience of his fragility and his awareness of God’s healing love. It was a conviction that never left him and that was at the basis of all his ministry: to lead others to his same experience.
St Eugene knew darkness and seeming-hopelessness many times in his life. Yet he recognized that in these dark moments, his Savior was present, and he attests to this in constantly in his writings. Just one example:

In the end, though with sadness, I go my way, placing my trust in God alone. Let us love him always more.

Letter to Father Forbin Janson, 12 September 1814

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One Response to WEDNESDAY OF HOLY WEEK: entering the Passover in our lives

  1. Eleanor Rabnett, Lay Oblate says:
    April 5, 2023 at 12:50

    “…entering the Passover in our lives.” Never before have I thought of Passover being a part of my life, but upon reflecting I realise that I have had an experience of this in my own life. For a moment I think of the words of The Deer’s Cry…

    It is in this light then that I read Frank’s words about Eugene’s fragility – that quality of being easily broken or damaged along with his awareness of God’s healing love. Both then being a part of God’s gift. I have always pictured Eugene as being larger and stronger than life, even as I know some of how he suffered yet still able to give glory to God, remaining aware of God’s immense healing love.

    It is never “one or the other” but always the “both-and”. It is in this light that I begin to understand Eugene’s words to Forbin Janson and Frank’s witness to the light in our dark moments that God is truly present to and with us.

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