Quote for Reflection (Sunday, May 11, 2025)

“What it meant and means to “proclaim the Lord’s death until he come.” The Cross, the central symbol of Christian life, has been, ever since Jesus’ renewal of the Passover, the sign of joy and of hope–joy for his passage (and that of our nature in him) into his kingdom, and therefore, assured hope for his Lordship at the end. Until his coming again the Church rejoices at his presence, his parousia, in the sacraments–and not just baptism and eucharist, but the whole liturgical complex by which the richness of our salvation is articulated, the all-embracing mystery of worship.”

The origins of the Liturgical year by Thomas J. Talley