Prepare for Mass – March 29, 2009 – (3/29/2009)
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Sunday March 29 2009 is the Fifth Sunday in Lent. The Gospel this week is Jn 12:20-33. The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified….When Jesus is lifted up he will draw everyone to himself.
Jn 12:24 – Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit.
Jn 12:26 – Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be. The Father will honor whoever serves me.
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Finally, the People of God shares in the royal office of Christ. He exercises his kingship by drawing all men to himself through his death and Resurrection. Christ, King and Lord of the universe, made himself the servant of all, for he came “not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. ”For the Christian, “to reign is to serve him,” particularly when serving “the poor and the suffering, in whom the Church recognizes the image of her poor and suffering founder.”
In today’s first reading God said, “I will place my law within them and write it upon their hearts” (Jer 31:33).
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In Jesus, the Law no longer appears engraved on tables of stone but “upon the heart” of the Servant who becomes “a covenant to the people”, because he will “faithfully bring forth justice”.
Responsorial Psalm: Create a clean heart in me, O God. – Psalm 51:12
Heb 5:8 – Son though he was, he (Jesus) learned obedience from what he suffered;
and when he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.
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“Although he was a Son, [Jesus] learned obedience through what he suffered.” How much more reason have we sinful creatures to learn obedience – we who in him have become children of adoption. We ask our Father to unite our will to his Son’s, in order to fulfill his will, his plan of salvation for the life of the world. We are radically incapable of this, but united with Jesus and with the power of his Holy Spirit, we can surrender our will to him and decide to choose what his Son has always chosen: to do what is pleasing to the Father.
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