Understanding the Day
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Week 2 of Passiontide
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Holy Week Monday (Feria II Majoris Hebdomadae) falls within Passiontide, the final days of Lent that lead directly into the Triduum and Easter. This season focuses on Christ’s suffering and the unfolding events of his Passion. As a Greater Privileged Feria, the day is a weekday of special solemnity: it is not a feast of a saint but a liturgical weekday with higher rank than an ordinary feria, so the prayers and readings emphasize the liturgy’s focus on the Lord’s Passion and take precedence over simple commemorations. There is no separate octave or vigil attached to this day itself; rather it belongs to the concentrated sequence of Holy Week observances culminating in the Paschal Triduum.
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Beatitude 8
The Beatitudes
Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice’s sake; for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Persecution for justice’s sake is suffering endured because one remains faithful to God, the faith, or virtue. The blessing belongs not to suffering caused by one’s own wrongdoing, but to steadfastness when fidelity brings loss, hostility, or punishment.
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In the mystery of salvation, Jesus’ violent death was not a mere coincidence but part of God’s plan, while those involved still acted freely rather than as passive players in a predetermined scenario. God’s eternal plan includes each person’s free response to his grace, and, for our salvation, he permitted the acts flowing from human blindness. Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, fulfilling the prophecy of the suffering Servant and offering a universal redemption from slavery to sin. In loving solidarity with sinners, Jesus was given up for us so that we might be reconciled to God. For our family’s prayer and reflection, these passages invite us to remember God’s benevolent love: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us, and he suffered for every human person without exception.
In these paragraphs, we reflect on the profound mystery of Jesus’ Incarnation and redemptive mission. From the first moment of his Incarnation, Jesus embraces the Father’s plan of salvation and lives to do the will of the One who sent him. John the Baptist points to him as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, and Christ’s whole life expresses his mission to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. Out of love for the Father and for those the Father desires to save, Jesus freely accepts his Passion and death. At the Last Supper, he offers his body and blood for the salvation of men and institutes the Eucharist as the memorial of his sacrifice, including the apostles in his offering and bidding them perpetuate it. As we pray with these passages, families can contemplate Jesus’ faithful love, his obedience to the Father, and his free gift of himself.
Religious life, born in the East during the first centuries of Christianity, remains a gift the Church has received from the Lord and offers as a stable way of life to those called by God to profess the evangelical counsels. Within canonically erected institutes, it is marked by liturgical life, public profession of the counsels, fraternal life in common, and witness to the union of Christ and the Church. Religious life serves the Church’s mission of evangelization and is called, in its many forms, to signify God’s charity in the language of our time. Secular institutes seek the perfection of charity and the sanctification of the world from within it, while societies of apostolic life pursue their particular apostolic purpose and strive for charity according to their constitutions. Through consecration, these members give themselves more intimately to God’s service and to the good of the Church, offering a witness that the world is transfigured and offered to God through the spirit of the beatitudes.