Monday, 3/21/16
The reading from Isaiah gives us the first of the Songs of
the Suffering Servant. It portrays the Messiah as a man of gentleness who never
shouts or makes his voice heard in the streets.
He is a teacher exhibiting patience with a student whose poor
hand writing is the bruised reed for
writing, whose smoldering wick is the child’s just managing to read.
Yesterday’s Gospel showed us this Savior whose concern for
others made him forgetful of his own pain. He told the women of Jerusalem to
weep for themselves and their children, rather than for him. In his own death
throws his heart could still go out to the thief dying at his side.
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