COMMENT:
Mass of the
Community; the most exciting days of the Resurrection of Easter Week.
Prayer is greatly twinned by the Meditations of Saint Greqory Palamas, patrictic, and Adrienne von Speyr, mystic and stigmatist.
Easter Week FRIDAY 10TH,
MEDITATION
The Gospel of the Lord.
John 21:1-14
... This was the third time that Jesus showed himself to the disciples after rising from the dead.
PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS
Perfect within us, O Lord, we pray,
the solemn exchange brought about by these paschal offerings,
that we may be drawn from earthly desires to a longing for the things of heaven.
Through Christ our Lord.
PREFACE I OF EASTER
When the Roman Canon is used, the proper forms of the Communicantes (In communion with those) and Hanc igitur (Therefore, Lord, we pray) are said.
COMMUNION ANTIPHON Cf. In 21:12-13 Jesus said to his disciples: Come and eat. And he took bread and gave it to them, alleluia.
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
Keep safe, 0 Lord, we pray,
those whom you have saved by your kindness that, redeemed by the Passion of your Son, they may rejoice in his Resurrection.
Who lives and reigns for ever and ever.
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MEDITATION OF THE DAY
Appreciated from MAGNIFICAT
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The Meaning of the
Catch
By Saint Greqory Palamas
The power of
Christ which had kept the net unbroken could surely have strengthened the men
to draw it in and made it light work, but did not do so, in order that the
Apostles should apprehend the miracle more clearly. Peter went back to the boat
to help them bring in the catch, as they were not able. Then the Lord, wishing
to make himself known to all, said to them, Come and eat (In 21:12), and
distributed the bread and fish to them with his own hands. By this act of
service he showed that he it is who will supply and share out that future eternal
joy which will come once the Apostles' nets have made their catch (cf. Mt 4:19);
that is to say, when all who are worthy from every nation have been gathered
into the true worship of God by the preaching of the Gospel. ...
The
unproductive night's work showed the fruitlessness of what was taught before he
appeared. And letting down the nets on the right side and the catch in the
morning demonstrated the effectiveness of the Gospel teaching after his coming.
When morning was come, when the Sun of righteousness (MI 4:2 [3:20)) himself shone
forth to us in the flesh, the divine teaching became successful and effectual,
gathering the multitudes of those being saved, and drawing them to Christ.
SAINT GREGORY PALAMAS (+ 1359) was a monk
and archbishop of Thessalonica.
Prayer for the Evening Jesus Christ is
Easter Week SATURDAY 11TH, MEDITATION
The Gospel of the Lord.
Mark 19:9-15
COMMUNION ANTIPHON Ga 3:27 All of you who have been baptised in Christ have put on Christ, alleluia.
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
Look with kindness upon your people, 0 Lord, and grant, we pray,
that those you were pleased to renew by eternal
mysteries
may attain in their flesh
the incorruptible glory of the resurrection. Through Christ our Lord.
MEDITATION OF THE
DAY
Appreciated
from MAGNIFICAT com.
"He
appeared first to Mary of Magdala"
ADRIENNE VON SPEYR
The
Lord appears first to the former sinner. She is the first to experience his being alive. And
from this, she comprehends the cross. All the sins of the world, also her
own, which were so visible, struck the Lord on the cross. But because she is no longer a sinner but, rather, was converted by the Lord already before the cross, he appears
to her. She is surely to embody in her person the absolution that is granted to all sinners on the cross.
But
beyond this, the Lord
placed her under the cross as one who has been converted, as one who loves and does penance in a
very profound union of her suffering with his suffering and also of her suffering with the suffering of his Mother. And if the Holy Spirit has found it right to leave the Mother's suffering in mystery and not
to mention her joy at the Resurrection of the Son, then it is as if Mary Magdalene is sent ahead in order to represent
all those who suffered together directly with the Crucified,
above all, the Mother of the Lord. From the outside, she remains, above
all, the sinner, who
with the apparition
on Easter morning receives
the certainty of absolution for the whole Church.
Adrienne von Speyr (+ 1967) was a Swiss physician, a mystical writer, and a stigmatist.
von Speyr; Adrenne Meditations for a Community, Michelle K. Borras, www.ignatius.com
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