Thursday, 4/10/14
Do you remember that at the Mass
on Easter we never have the creed, the Profession of Faith? It is always
replaced with our renewing our Baptismal Vows. We are asked if we renounce
Satan and all his works? Do we believe the main tenets of our Faith?
It always seemed to me that while making
those Vows belonged to the Baptism ceremony, they were out of place in the Eater
Mass. But thirty years ago I read a papal document that set me straight on
that. The documented stated that the whole purpose of Lenten fasts were to
prepare us to be utterly sincere when we repeat our Baptismal Vows at Easter.
In these remaining days of Lent we
must steel ourselves so that we mean it with all our hearts when we say we renounce
all works of the devil, and we hold to the truths of the Faith.
1 comment:
Thank you for sharing. I had never thought of our Lenten fasts like that. It makes a lot of sense. God bless, Theresa
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