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WEDNESDAY, March 31 Wednesday in Holy Week
Feeding others is as intimate and as profoundly loving as washing them. To feed someone demonstrates our interdependence and need for each other. It is something that always moves me--to feed a baby, or someone sick, to pass the bread at eucharist. Feeding others is holy and good.
Jesus fed the one who would betray him.
It is important for me to recognize the Judas in myself. I am a betrayer, as surely as he was. I too turn against those who love me and hurt them. More often than not, my betrayal is disguised as an act of affection. Betraying with a kiss is the way it usually goes.
There is a Judas in me. When Christ feeds me, he feeds all of me--the sinner and the saint alike. He feeds my Judas. He loves even that part of me. He loves "the least of these" in me. He loves the parts of me I hide from the world and deny.
That is a remarkable feeding. He does not withold anything--even his body and his blood--from such a one as I. (1984)
What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul!
–Hymnal 1982, #439
PRAY for the Diocese of Butere (Kenya)
Ps 70; Isaiah 50:4-9a; Hebrews 12:1-3
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