The Mind of Christ

Ah, God.

Today begins Your week.

Oh, I know that every week is yours,

but this week is yours

in a more distilled way.

You’ll be more on my mind this week

than in an average week.

Help me to drink deeply of Your passion,

let the alleluia stir in my depths,

so that next week

it will rise in me

like the dawn.

Dear Friends,

To learn how to suffer this pandemic time, we must learn how to stand in Jesus’ place – to bear pain, abandonment, cruelty, distance, condemnation. Through all of it, Jesus was faithful and true. May it be so with us.

He trusted and obeyed his Father and broke the power of sin and betrayal. In the great and little tragedies of life, let this mind of Christ be ours as well. May it be so with us.

Love led Jesus through to death to life. His love. His Father’s love. May it be so with us.

That is our last word.

Next week, Jesus has the first word as He Easters over the world.

All week long, let us live into His New Day. Alleluia.

~Sister Joan Sobala