RENEWAL

This week, Holy Week, is a good time for renewal.  

Many changes happen in our lives and it's good to be prepared to face the challenges whatever they might be.

As a child we are anxious to learn, to know, to do.  The world is an adventure, inviting us to reach out and become a part of all that surrounds us.

As we become older and perhaps a little wiser, we begin to learn a different way of life.

We are invited to go inward and renew ourselves in a more spiritual way.

The Passion of Christ is a time for looking at ourselves in relation to Love.  Here we have the Life of Christ, our Saviour, willing to give ALL that He is for us.

This kind of love is almost beyond our understanding. To love that much, knowing that we cannot and perhaps will not respond to God's love for us, teaches us what love is all about.

St. Therese put it in a very simple way...

     'To receive so much and to give so little is the martyrdom to which I succumb.'

She understood how much God loved her and did her best to respond to that Love.

We are invited to do the same and renew our lives, according to the Standard of Love.