UNIV 2019: Holy Week in Rome
In his Wednesday general audience, Pope Francis had words of encouragement for the 2,000 students in Rome from April 14 - 21 to grasp more deeply the...
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Maundy Thursday: “I have longed and longed to eat this Passover with you”
We should dwell on those words of Jesus, and make them our own: Desiderio desideravi hoc Pascha manducare vobiscum: I have longed and longed to eat this Passover with you. There is no better way to show how great is our concern and love for the Holy Sacrifice than by taking great care with the least detail of the ceremonies the wisdom of the Church has laid down.
This is for Love: but we should also feel the “need" to become like Christ, not only inside ourselves but also in what is external. We should a...ct, on the wide spaciousness of the Christian altar, with the rhythm and harmony which holy obedience provides, the holy obedience that unites us to the will of the Spouse of Christ ...
