there's no mass today anywhere
why because Jesus is dead he's been
buried he's gone and if you go into any
Catholic Church today you're gonna find
the tabernacle door is open the
tabernacle empty the sanctuary lamp is
going to be extinguished he's gone and
often today is the day that I like to
come and be with Mary can you imagine
what she was going through right now
just yesterday she had witnessed her son
being tortured and dying she held his
dead body in her arms remembering that
moment that she had bought him into this
world
pure innocent clean and now he's
returned to her bloody broken head and I
can just see how she was going over in
her mind seeing these scenes seeing
these different moments of him being
condemned to death him carrying his
cross him being nailed to the cross and
in her heart she's hurting the day she
needs us so today is a day that I like
to be with her to console her and it's
not saying a lot it's just opening our
heart to her heart that's been so
wounded did yesterday was the day the
sword passed there were hurt in life
includes these kind of moments we have
moments of passion moments of death and
even in our mission we have moments of
this as well but we know with the big
picture is not to end in the death it's
not to end in the grieving it's for new
life to come and so even though we may
be grieving deep deep down we need to be
praying for this moment not only of the
death but of the resurrection Jesus's
ascension into heaven and the coming of
the Holy Spirit on the church so that we
have a church alive