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Station - St. Paul Outside the Walls
- Details:
- Apr. 14, 2:00 am
STATION – ST. PAUL OUTSIDE THE WALLS
Today the co-apostle, St. Paul, brings us the joyful message of the Lord’s resurrection. “Of the water of wisdom God gave you to drink” (Introit) are the apostle’s words of welcome to us as in spirit we enter his basilica. St. Paul’s Outside the Walls is one of Rome’s larges churches. Three weeks ago those preparing for Baptism received three precious jewels, the Our Father, the Gospels and the Creed. Today St. Paul instructs us through his Epistles. With the water of Baptism, Christ has satisfied our thirst with Divine Wisdom. Who knows better the transforming power of the “water and wisdom” than he who by this very water was changed from a Saul to a Paul, from a persecutor of Christ to His defender, from a foolish man to a wise Apostle?
Our baptismal day was our resurrection; was Christ’s resurrection in us, was our resurrection in Christ, the beginning of the “newness of life,” life in Christ. “If you are risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God, mind the things that are above.” Who preserved more faithfully and more gratefully the grace of baptism than Paul, the apostle of Christ? After the scales had fallen from his eyes and heart, he was through with the “things that are below.”
Holy Mother Church desires that we preserve the grace of the paschal mystery, i.e., the effects of those sacred actions which in these holy days are celebrated on the altar and applied to our souls.
In today’s Eucharistic celebration the Risen Lord will stand also in our midst to impart to us His “Pax vobix,” to show us His hands and feet and to give us those sacred “remains” to eat that will augment in us the newness of His life.
Accompanied by St. Paul let us approach our triumphant Lord and place into His hand the promise that, having risen with Him, we shall now seek the things that are above where He is sitting at the right hand of God, alleluia!