Some Thoughts for Holy Week 2011

I started reading Leonard Hodgson's The Doctrine of the Atonement sorta as preparation for Easter. He states, "The doctrine of the atonement is concerned with God's answer to the problem of evil, with the action taken by God in the history of this world in order to rescue His creation from the evil with which it has become infected" (17).  Thanks be to God for his action in human history!

Prayer after Mass by the Missionaries of Charity (founded by Mother Teresa)

Dear Jesus, help us to spread Your fragrance everywhere we go. 

Flood our souls with Your spirit and life.

Penetrate and possess our whole being so utterly that our lives 

may only be a radiance of Yours.

Shine through us, and be so in us that every soul we come in contact with 

may feel your presence in our souls.

Let them look up and see no longer us, but only Jesus!

Stay with us, and then we shall shine as you shine;

so to shine as to be a light to others. 

The light, O Jesus, will be all from You, none of it will be ours; 

it will be You shining on others through us. 

Let us preach you without preaching, not by words but by our

example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what we do, 

the evident fullness of the love of our hearts bear to You. Amen