On this Easter Sunday my mind and heart are resting on a paragraph from last nights’ Exsultet:
Our birth would have been no gain,
Had we not been redeemed.
O wonder of your humble care for us!
O Love, O charity beyond all telling,
To ransom a slave you gave away your Son!
God’s humble care and love brings us back to Holy Thursday, as Pope Francis’ homily at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper expressed so well. The passage of the Gospel that we heard on Holy Thursday “says a word that is precisely the center of what Jesus did for all of us: ‘He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end.’ (Jn. 13,2). Jesus loved us. Jesus loves us. But without limits, always to the end. The love of Jesus for us has no limits, it is always more. He never tires of loving anyone. He loves all of us to the point of giving His life. Yes, He gives his life for all of us, He gives his life for each one of us. And each one of us can say: ‘He gave His life for me.’ He gave his life for you, for you, for you, for me for each one, with first and last name, because His love is like that: personal.”
“The love of Jesus never deceives because he never tires of loving, as He also never tires of forgiving, He never tires of embracing us. This is the first thing I wanted to tell you: Jesus loved each one of you ‘to the end.’”
“Jesus, has so much love that He made Himself a slave in order to serve us, to heal us, to clean us … In our heart, we must have the certainty, we must be sure that the Lord, when he washes our feet, He washes everything, He purifies us! He makes us feel once again His love.
In the Bible there is a sentence from the prophet Isaiah that is very beautiful. It says: ‘Can a mother forget her own child? Though a mother may forget her child, I will not forget you!’ (Is. 49:15) That is how the love of God is for us.”
This is charity beyond all telling, an expression of God’s humble care for us!
Alleluia! Let us rejoice in the love of Christ, our Good Shepherd and Risen Lord!
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