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In Four Short Months... 

For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world! Lord, Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on us sinners! 

Open your mouth for the speechless, for the rights of all condemned to die. Open your mouth, judge righteously, maintain the rights of the poor and needy. -Proverbs 31:8-9 

A Look Backward to the Passion - Jesus is stripped of his garments:

The soldiers take Jesus� tunic from him
with the brutality of thieves;
they also try to rob him
of his modesty and his dignity.
But Jesus is the modesty, Jesus is the dignity
that belongs to man and the human body.
And the scorned body of Christ
becomes the indictment of all the scorn
ever shown to the human body,
which God created as the mirror of the soul
and the language to speak of love.
Today bodies are constantly bought and sold
on the streets of our cities,
on the streets of our televisions,
in homes that have become like streets.
When will we realize that we are killing love?
When will we realize that, without purity,
the body can neither be alive nor life-giving?
Prayer:
Lord Jesus,
purity has everywhere fallen victim
to a calculated conspiracy of silence: an impure silence!
People have even come to believe
a complete lie:
that purity is somehow the enemy of love.
But the opposite is true, O Lord!
Purity is necessary
as a condition for love:
a love that is true, a love that is faithful.
In any event, Lord,
if we cannot be the master of ourselves?
how can we give ourselves to others?
Only the pure are capable of love;
only the pure can love without cheapening love.
Lord Jesus,
by the power of your blood poured out in love,
grant us pure hearts,
so that our world may see a rebirth of love,
that love for which our hearts so deeply yearn. 

Jesus Christ is risen today, Alleluia!
our triumphant holy day, Alleluia!
who did once upon the cross, Alleluia!
suffer to redeem our loss. Alleluia!

Hymns of praise then let us sing, Alleluia!
unto Christ, our heavenly King, Alleluia!
who endured the cross and grave, Alleluia!
sinners to redeem and save. Alleluia!

But the pains which he endured, Alleluia!
our salvation have procured, Alleluia!
now above the sky he's King, Alleluia!
where the angels ever sing. Alleluia!
Happy Easter - from OraProNobis! 

Today we celebrate the Institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper:

"And as they were eating, He took bread, and blessed , and broke it, and gave it to them, and said, "Take; this is my body." And He took a cup, and when He had given thanks He gave it to them, and they all drank of it. And He said to them, "This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many."

- Mark 14: 22-24

Several Franciscan Friars of the Renewal stand at the door of an abortuary during a Pro-Life vigil in the Bronx.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O, Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.