Easter celebration
It is known, from many Franciscan sources, that Saint of Assisi observed penance, through the most important week of the liturgical year, especially the Paschal Triduum, with great spiritual intensity, preparing himself conscientiously throughout Lent. Suffice it to recall, as an example, the Office of the Passion of the Lord (although we could cite other texts of the saint), with which it seems that Francis seek to know how to approach the mystery of the Most High Lord who descends to wash the feet of his disciples and accept the torture of the cross for us, for our good?
We find the answer precisely in that interweaving of texts that is the Office of the Passion, a true mosaic made up of verses from different psalms, with quotes from the New Testament and with not a few personal additions. Reading between the lines, we can glimpse how Francis lived his Lord's Easter, which was his own Easter!: with the feelings of the Son in his dialogue with the Father (always saving what is Mysterious in this relationship!) , with deep gratitude, with awe, with reverence, with a spirit of adoration, with overflowing joy.
Saint Clare did not go unnoticed by this precious mosaic which Francis had been composing little by little, in step with his own journey of faith, to the point of "learning by heart the Office of the Cross, just as Saint Francis had composed it."
Francis burst into tears when he mysteriously recognized that the world, and each one with him, was being saved through a Love that allowed himself to be crucified. That is why he will say to a farmer who one day found him sobbing around Santa María della Portiuncula: "I cry the passion of my Lord, for whom I should not be ashamed to go moaning loudly throughout the world." Healing tears, we could call them, very typical of men and women who have achieved a great familiarity with Christ.
May we see ourselves absolutely involved in the first person in these days in the Mystery of love that we are going to celebrate, so that we can relive in faith what happened in history: Christ, crucified for us and risen for our hope. "Why have you loved us so much, my Lord?"
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