Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Homily for 15 Mar 2016

15 Mar 2016

Each of us has, more or less, died a little bit already.  After all, that’s what sin does to us.  We’ve each played with, and been bitten by, the serpent of sin, whose venom is deadly.

And, as wounded children do, we’ve run to the One who loves us with tears in our eyes and fear in our hearts.  And there, through faith in God, we’ve been embraced and kissed by the mercy of God, who gives the Blood of Christ to us as a healing serum.

“Take this, all of you, and drink from it,” Jesus says, “it will be poured out for the forgiveness of sins.”  We approach the altar of God with death in us.  But we leave the altar with life in us.  And not only life, but also wisdom and faith.  God’s Wisdom: to help us steer clear of the serpent of sin.  And faith: in believing that a healing remedy is always here for us.

We’ve each died a little bit already through our sins.  But with the Cross of Christ, and his Blood flowing from it, we are raised from death to life . . . today and forever. 

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