As we celebrate the Martyrs of Korea today,
it is wise to remember that the cross happens when we love…or try to. And
as we take up our cross, Jesus is our brave and compassionate companion along
the way. In following him, we are made one with him. And he invites us to
imitate him – in patience and hope in our Father’s most loving regard for us
always.
Love always gives itself away; it cannot be
unaffected by the beloved’s troubles. As each morning we go up to the
altar for Holy Communion, we go up to the cross, where Christ’s body was first
offered, where the bread that is his body, God’s wheat, was finely baked in the
heat of his passion. May the passion of Christ Jesus our Lord become our own
more and more, as we eat his body and drink his blood.
Vintage photo of the Abbey church.
Vintage photo of the Abbey church.
