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Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent
March 28, 2007 | 1 Comment
March 28, 2007 
Old Calendar: St. John of Capistrano, confessor
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“Amen, amen, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin. A slave does not remain in a household forever, but a son always remains.” The hostility of the enemies of Jesus becomes increasingly clear, and the agitation around His person continues with greater intensity; but He awaits His “hour”. Satan and the forces of evil will appear to triumph, but the real victory will come and it is God’s victory. Before the reform of the Roman Calendar this was the feast of St. John de Brebeuf. His feast has been transferred to October 19.
The Station today is at the church of St. Marcellus at the Corso. Legend claims that Pope St. Marcellus (308-309) was sentenced by Emperor Maxentius to look after the horses at the station of the Imperial mail on the Via Lata, where the Via del Corso now lies. He was freed by the people, and hidden in the house of the Roman lady Lucina (see also San Lorenzo in Lucina). He was rearrested, and imprisoned in the stables.
Meditation
We must forgive our neighbor always. This fraternal charity is the source of strength among the members of the Mystical Body: “If two of your shall consent upon earth concerning anything whatsoever they shall ask, it shall be done to them by my Father”. This charity should animate us in giving fraternal correction, which should always be free from all vanity, self-love and desire to humiliate and defame.
The Church dispenses Christ’s forgiveness through the power of the keys: “whatsoever you shall loose upon earth shall be loosed also in heaven”. Christ’s pardon of us is limitless. Just as the small quantity of oil, increasing miraculously at the word of Elias, enabled the poor widow to pay all her debts, so the infinite merits of Christ enable us to expiate all our sins.
Love of God and of neighbor imposes on us constant self-denial and self-mastery. Only love working through mortification will enable us to ascend the “holy hill” and dwell in “God’s tabernacle”. — The Cathedral Daily Missal by Right Rev. Msgr. Rudolph G. Bandas
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