Pope's Wednesday audience: the Easter triduum shows God's love for man
Today on Holy Thursday at the start of the Easter triduum, we remember God's holy sacrifice for us as the Pope reminds us in yesterday's Wednesday audience:On the Easter Triduum
"We Will Relive the Passion, Death and Resurrection"
VATICAN CITY, APRIL 12, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of Benedict XVI's address at today's general audience, which he dedicated to explain the meaning of the Easter triduum.
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Dear Brothers and Sisters:
Tomorrow the Easter triduum begins, which is the fulcrum of the whole liturgical year. Aided by the sacred rites of Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the solemn Easter Vigil, we will relive the passion, death and resurrection of the Lord.
They are propitious days to reawaken in us a more intense desire to be united to Christ and follow him generously, conscious that he has loved us to the point of giving his life for us. The events that the sacred triduum again proposes to us are the sublime manifestation of this love of God for man.
Let us dispose ourselves, therefore, to celebrate the Easter triduum taking up St. Augustine's exhortation: "Consider now attentively the three holy days of the crucifixion, burial and resurrection of the Lord. From these three mysteries we realize in the present life that of which the cross is symbol, while we realize through faith and hope, that of which the burial and resurrection is symbol" (Letter 55,14,24).
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posted by Dr. Denice Hanley, DPM, M.Div. @ 9:50 AM
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