of the celebrations of Holy Week one that moves me most is the celebration of Holy Thursday at the Metropolitan Cathedral.
moves me, firstly because it is the conclusion to which we have witnessed both those priests who are relatives, friends or simply known as assisting those who collaborate in the Liturgy, so that we can see very them beautiful and very gallant, assuming our role with dignity.
In the aspect of ritual, a source of excitement is because it is a celebration sung by the choir of the Central Seminary of Paso Ancho and because, by having a phenomenal voice, his presence there is promise.
As with the presence of the seminarians, many details of the rite stir because they speak so clearly of God's love for his people and opens so many spaces for our response of love for Christ and the Church is not another moved back and extend this love to their enshrined.
On the doctrinal side, is a spectacular celebration, to mention one detail: since I started the opening song is an eerie layers transported to the mystery of redemption, at this point, usually the choir sings the hymn " Village of Kings "whose content is rich, so beautiful and so vast that between letters and chords, he fills one's soul.
if not known, the first stanza reads:
I sing, Oh, beloved Son of the Father;we praise God's eternal Word output.you sing, Oh, Son of the Virgin Mary;We praise you, O Christ our brother, our Savior.
With only this song is put on alert the whole mind and soul.
The crowd then entered in procession down the aisle is great: hundreds of priests attached to his bishop prepared to renew the promises of his priestly ministry.
Year after year, these men are just men, but they have the uniqueness of their consecration, are present before the Almighty to renew itself with the love that gave their lives for 50, 35 or 6. They do this every year without fail in his appointment.
The weight of this evidence is great. One, to her, you get to ask about the type and quality of the motivations that produce a human being do this simple act with fidelity and again each year until the end of his days.
The only answer that comes to mind is the love A love of such quality and magnitude that is like leaving the very heart of Christ.
Love is patient, helpful, love does not envy, it does not boast, it is not puffed up, that does not come with lowliness, not seeking their own interest, which is not easily provoked, which has no into account a wrong suffered, that does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices with the truth. It is a love that everything apology, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. It is love that never fails. "
With the splendid liturgy of Holy Thursday a fall in the account falls how wonderful God is also close to his creatures, coming down from heaven and offered with their own hands the love that will enable them to catch up.
infinite love of the Lord who alone might reach land sky contained in an "if" tiny, in the affirmative response of those men, men on Holy Thursday.
"Men who go up alone to the altar and down all the streets and squares.
Those men who, for some, are the ones who are always right and that others, who are to blame everything.
Men who have gotten into the huge mess of anything unless you want to continue the work of Christ and of course, many times get it wrong. Because there are more than these men.
are those men who apologize to Christians, all men, so bad that handle the enormous and wonderful things of God, they are asked to have a little patience with them, and pray hard today and always, but especially today, for them all, because there are more than these men. "
For these men, men on Holy Thursday alway to God all the glory!
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