The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-04-06
Holy Week.

Holy Week.
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The Hottest Week of the entire year ha
arrived; the great Week in which ou
Ransom was paid /; the Week in which Sc
many prophecies fulfilled, SO many tri
umphs achieved, SO many torments en-.
.dured, so many lessons of patience deliy.
cred by the meek and suffering Jesus
During this week He fully accomplished
the Will of His heavenly Father. He il
ples-His "soul is sorrowful even unto
death"-His agony expresses from every
pore OF His body perspiration of blood.
. he bears upon Himself "the inequities OF
us alP'-He bends beneath the accumulated
guilt OF ages, both past and future.
He is sold by a traitor kiss-He il hur.
ried as malefactor before unjust tribunals
lie ID Knocked, scourged, spit upon, de-
flded as fool, delivered up to the fury OF
barbarous soldiery, and the blood thirsty
rage of a still more barbarous rabble.
he slowly and painfully drags His heavy
Calvary; and on that place of skulls, that
mount OF death, His innocent flesh is nailed
to the Altar of His Great Sacrifice. and
amidst the shouts and imprecations Of His
enemies, He is raised alofe between earth
and heaven, naked, bleeding, and man
gled victm.
HIS piercing Crown OF thorns is on His
head, and over Him is written the titles of
kNs Kayalty, the cause of His death. For
this hlngly dignity He was born, for this
he came into the world; and after three
hours of intense agony, during which He
attracts nf lie ,itIT ,,l
and establishes His absolute dominion in
their hearts, He dies, the King of Love.
and IN His death perpetuatcs the reign and
triumph of His Love, while time shall
hast.
In this week, lie erters the ROYAL city as
King, and is received with loud Hosan-
mas. Alas! in five short days. those tickle
jews VIII change them into Crucifixes
When he behOlds Jerusalem at distance.
lie sheds over it tears of love. Happy city
over which Jesus wept! Thrice happy, o
Jerusalem, ii those precious tear drops had
melted thy stony heart, and night thee to
knew the day of thy visit ation "Dauchter
OF Sion!" 'He comes to thee meek!" and thou
wilt receive him with all tile fury of re-
Venge. He comes to thee sitting on a low
~ ass and t1ou wilt exalt Him on an in
famous gihbet.
In this week, His trescherous disciple.
"She man of His peace, in whom lie hoped,
who eat His bread will betruy Him unto the
hands of His enemies, and sell, for a few
pieces OF money, all the Treasure of earth
andheaven. He will be first Toasted on
HIS precious Body and Blood, and will af-
forwards, with an iDgratitude which de-
serves ten thousand hells, deliver up that |
Adorable Body TO the manacle, the buffet. |
ana the sc"urge; to the spittal. tho FOOLS |
garment, the mock sceptre, and the bloody |
crown to the rude nails and sharp lance |
TO all the bitterness of vinegar, aud naus,
eousness of gall, to the hard c1neI and |
agonlzinG bed of the cross! He will also
Dasely sell that priceless Blood, which,
wnen 1t touches one spot of earth, wilbwash
away all It's denominations which pacifies
Ehe Things that are in heaven and on earth,
winch contain such bOundless and purify I
t 10y encacy' that it is able to cleanse even
the terrible crime by which it was shed.
In this week too, on the eve of His nos-
sion, 1.-THE night in which he was BETRAYED. :"
Jesus, "haviDg loved His own who were in
Ghe world loved them to the cad Flowed
them to His last moments, to the end of
His painful life, to the end and term of ali
love loved them with a pure, constant,
generous, ardent, dieinterested, and ex-
eesslVe love. And, as dying proof of HE
love, this "merciful and Ompassionate
Lord, made "a memorial, an abrldgment of
all His wonders He gave food to those
who fear him." He bequeathed them the
legacy Of HIS Body and Blood, His Soul,
and His Divinity, that they might cat
shereof, and through Him live for ever.
he lett them the Body that was broken,
and the Blood that was shed for love of
hem, that whenever they received them,
hey might "shOw forth His dsatb.n and .
commemorate His infinite Love, "greater d
ban winch no man hath - for, IL was O I
Lave as strong as DEATH" Love which
rlnmPhed ever the hitterness Of death. I
During this week. He delivered HIS mart
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