A friend of mine who works in the field of Initiation wrote to me today. He began his note with the following reflection: "We all know the stories. They are shared within our families, between friends, and even among those we work with. Those inescapable stories of brokenness, illness, and loss. The more time marches on ... the more these stories accumulate, and some days it can seem harder than it used to be to offset them with the stories of gain, of victory, and of hope.
These days of the Triduum we come that unique threshold through which we acknowledge the unspeakable costliness of ours and the world’s brokenness. Yet we do so in the light of a God whose very nature and sole purpose are life, generous & full. It is in Jesus Christ that this purpose is fully shown us, the Lord of the abyss and of the way through it. In our God made flesh we not only glimpse the promise of that first garden of life—we sample its fruits, get a hint of its fragrance, catch a glimpse of its incomparable shades and colors. And together we rediscover that we ourselves are that garden people capable of bearing the costly gift of this new life to others." Powerful words as we keep these Three Days...
At 7:30 this evening our youth will lead us once again into a dramatic presentation of the Stations of the Cross. In Word and in reflection, in Song and in drama we will be invited to ponder how the journey of Jesus almost 2,000 years ago is reflected in our lives here and now - in Bolton in 2011.
The money collected at the Stations helps to cover the cost of retreats for the different components of our Youth Ministry.
Peace
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