Holy Thursday Homily
Tonight we remember. We begin to remember that Love is stronger than death. We remember this not just as something that happened 2,000 years ago in Jesus, but as something that IS happening to us, in us, right now on this Holy Night. The death, that Love is stronger than, is not just our physical death, but all the deaths we endure in loving service of our neighbors. St. Paul said, in his letter to the Galatians: “I no longer live but Christ lives in me.” To experience this Divine Union in our lives requires a constant death to self so that we may rise in Christ and Christ rise in us. The steps to this new life are remembered, and hopefully made our own, in the three acts of our Triduum service that we begin tonight. Tonight’s action is humble service. I know it is awkward, and you feel a little self-conscience but imagine what it was like for those at the Last Supper. Dirty, sweaty, smell...