Entering the Scene

I think today, and really all this week, is a good time to put ourselves into the time of Jesus and evaluate what character we would be in the gospel readings.  For example, on this day, Psalm Sunday, where would you have been as Jesus walked through Jerusalem?  Would you have been in the background wondering whats going on?  Would you be a Pharisee telling Jesus to "order your disciples to stop"?  Or would you have "spread your cloak on the road", "praising God joyfully with a loud voice for all the deeds of power that they had seen"?  In less than a week, however, would you then turn on Jesus and cheer for His crucifixion?  Would you mock Him on the cross and spit in His face ?  Just because everyone else was or because you really wanted to?  Would you love Jesus and believe in Him but fear the Jews and hide in the upper room?  Or would you be at the foot of the cross comforting Jesus's sorrowful mother?  Back to today's readings, when Jesus instituted the Lord's Supper and said "This is my body, which is given for you" And "This cup that is  poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood", would you accept that and see it as it really is?  Would you betray Jesus?  Would you lose focus, arguing about who is greater, and not see the incredibly intimate gift Jesus JUST gave you of His Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity?  Do we do this even today?  Lose focus on the true meaning of the Eucharist?  That Jesus doesn't only spill out His blood for our sins on the cross but that He also allows us to fully receive Him into our bodies!!  If we could only fully and completely understand and believe in this miraculous gift of God, imagine just how much we could do with this strength of God inside us.  Just look at the lives of Blessed Mother Theresa and Blessed John Paul II.  These are people who took the power of the Eucharist into the world and used it as it should be used.  How can we use this power?  How has God CALLED us to use it?  Meditate on this throughout Holy Week and ask Jesus to reveal how you can fully accept His sacrifice for you and use the gifts that come from it in your life.  Praise be Jesus Christ, now and forever.