Holy Thursday

 

On the Night He was Betrayed 1Cor. 11:23

On the night Jesus was betrayed;

On the night His own disciple was going to betray Him with a kiss;

On the night He was going to be arrested;

On the night He sweat blood in the Garden of Gethsemane;

On the night Peter denied Him three times;

On the night before He would be scourged;

On the night before He would be crowned with thorns and mocked;

On the night before He would be nailed to a cross;

On the night before He would hang in agony for 6 hrs on the cross;

On the night before He would die;

What do you think Jesus did?

What would you do?

If You were going to be betrayed, denied, beaten, scourged, nailed to a cross and die in agony?

Some people might complain “why me?”

While others might become angry at God

And still others try to escape it all.

What did Jesus do?

He gave thanks!

It is almost incomprehensible that in the face of such horrific suffering,

Jesus gave thanks.

Yet On the night He was betrayed,

He took bread that was to become His Body given on the cross and gave thanks to His Father,

And then He took the cup that was to be His Blood poured out on the cross and gave thanks again.

He did not let His suffering defeat Him,

Nor take away His Love and Faith in His Father.

And then when supper was over,

He went out singing to the Garden of Gethsemane.

As was the custom after the end of every Passover meal.

In the face of suffering how do we respond?

It all depends if we have Faith.

A Real Faith that lives and moves and has its being in us.

A Faith that “always and everywhere gives thanks.”

That kind of Faith starts by giving thanks for the little things

And then grows and grows into a

Faith that nothing can defeat or overcome;

At every Mass we are at the Last Supper, With Jesus,

giving thanks always and everywhere to God;

Whether we are On the beach or on the cross;

At the beginning of our life or at the end;

God Bless