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InThePew
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The season of Lent involves parts of our liturgical life being stripped away. We lose the alleluia and the Gloria from mass, along with flowers from the church; crosses and statues are covered from the fifth Sunday and, on Holy Thursday the altar is stripped. Then, at the start of this evening’s mass we began in darkness having lost light itself because the Lord of light was laid in the tomb.
Our first reading takes us back to the beginning because through Christ we have become a new creation dying to sun and rising again to new life hyphen reborn him baptism through water and sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit; adopted as sons and daughters of God himself.
We know though that darkness is still all too present in our lives, especially in this time of pandemic - even after lockdown things will still be a long way from normal. Christ comes to us in the darkness of our lives, seeking us out, calling us to come into the light; giving us hope, giving us salvation and delivering us from darkness by his death and resurrection.
His light, leading us to the Father, is a sign of his presence, his sacrifices, his love, his spirit given to us in baptism, but most of all of his promise to be with us, a promise which enables and empowers us as witnesses to what we believe, giving on the Good News: he is risen.
Our first reading takes us back to the beginning because through Christ we have become a new creation dying to sun and rising again to new life hyphen reborn him baptism through water and sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit; adopted as sons and daughters of God himself.
We know though that darkness is still all too present in our lives, especially in this time of pandemic - even after lockdown things will still be a long way from normal. Christ comes to us in the darkness of our lives, seeking us out, calling us to come into the light; giving us hope, giving us salvation and delivering us from darkness by his death and resurrection.
His light, leading us to the Father, is a sign of his presence, his sacrifices, his love, his spirit given to us in baptism, but most of all of his promise to be with us, a promise which enables and empowers us as witnesses to what we believe, giving on the Good News: he is risen.