Greetings. Hope all goes well.
Our Lenten season is quickly approaching its end. Easter will be upon us before we know it.
I am sure that we all have been in the situation where we want to explain something, but we just cannot find the words. As hard as we try, the right words just do not come to mind much less out of our mouths. We find ourselves stuttering to find a way to explain what we wish to express.
Soren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher and theologian tells us today that we are not the only ones who find it hard to find the right words to express what is deepest in our hearts. We might even say that God may
find Himself in the same situation. In the words attributed to Fred R. Bernard, “A picture is worth a thousand words.”
Kierkegaard tells us, “Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken FOR us by His death.”
The death of Christ may be interpreted in many ways, from “paying back” what we owe to the Father to expressing the extent to which the Father will go to express His love.
No matter how we want to give meaning to the Lord’s death, His death is not the end of our story but only the beginning.
Let us keep in mind that the life we now live is but a foreshadowing of the life to come.
Peace and All Good,
Fr. Vinnie, fcm and the
Bros and Srs of the
Franciscan House of Prayer.
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