Holy Thrustday-9.04.

2020
Kibiko-Sisters house

Tumsifu Iesu Christu!!!

My dear friends, maybe when you want to organize your time, you*are setting up
your time: time for sleeping, time for reading, after reading is time for sleeping,
than time to eat, and after is again time for sleep..... everything have his own time,
like prophet Qohelet says: “There is a time for everything, and a season for every
activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant (you
know very good this time) and a time to uproot,… a time to weep and a time to
laugh… a time to embrace and “now” a time to refrain from embracing… a time to be
silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate” (Ecc 3, 1-8), and I want
to stop here with this wonderful lesson of prophet, because this last saying of prophet
fits the time which we start now at this Holy Mass, Holy Triduum. “A time to love,
and a time to hate”.
In today Gospel we have heard: “Before the festival of the Passover, Jesus, knowing
that his hour had come to pass from this world to the Father, having loved those who
were his in the world, loved them to the end.” Loved them-loved us-is time to love,
and all today Gospel is about the God love in Christ for the world.
In every apostle is the whole world, some humble who leave Jesus to wash their
feets, and in this we can see the people who allow God to work through them without
resistance, and some more stubborn like Peter, who resist at the beginning, but they
cannot resist God*s Grace for a long time.
How about me? Where I feel is my place? I have to admit that many times I was
like Peter, not because my name, I think…but how about you?….Think…
My friends we must be honest, that the time to love and the time to hate seems like
have no end, because yes, The Love died on the cross, but will rise and will continue
to be present every day until the second coming. How?
In the Cathehism of Catholic Church at number 1337 it*s written: “The Lord,
having loved those who were his own, loved them to the end. Knowing that the hour
had come … in the course of a meal he washed their feet and gave them the
commandment of love…. And here wake up and hear with attention…In order to
leave them a pledge of this love, in order never to depart from his own …he
instituted the Eucharist as the memorial of his death and Resurrection, and
commanded his apostles to celebrate it until his return.
Woooau, Eucharist is a pledge of His love, to remain with us until the second
coming, until we will meet with the sours of Love. And establishing the Eucharisty, he
also constituted the apostle, priest of the New Testament, that they could make this
love to reach out to all.
So today in one celebration we have two sacrament: Eucharisty an Priesthood.
There is no Eucharisty without the priest, and there is no priesthood without
Eucharisty.
Eucharisty is the most powerful sacrament, the most Holy Sacrament, and imagine,
is only a piece of bread and a cup of wine, a meal that feeds billion of people, in life
and near death. Only a meal, but a meal who (Christ) give us the eternal life, but we
must be careful and understand what St Thomas of Aquino sais: “The good partake,
the bad partake: with, however, an unequal share of life and death. It is death to the
bad, life to the good: behold how unlike is the result of like partaking”.
 Holy Thrustday-9.04.2020
Kibiko-Sisters house

So my dear friends, now I want to question myself and also you….Which question
mark I put when I ask about Eucharisty… Who is for me Eucharisty, or what is for me
Eucharisty….Is only a thing like other things, like chocolate, like juice, or Is the
Person, Christ himself Who come in my life, and when I can not receive Him is like
the end of the world?
There is no Eucharisty without the priest, and there is no priesthood without
Eucharisty. Yes, my dear friends in this time that we live, we see that without priest
we cannot receive the Holy Eucharisty, yes maybe you here you can, because you
have, but if the Eucharisty will finish one day, can you consecrate, I think no…
And now we see why Jesus instituted apostles, the Priest of the New Testament, to
continue to do in memory of Him, like we have heard in second reading today: “the
Lord Jesus took some bread, and after he had given thanks, he broke it, and he said,
'This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.' And in the same
way, with the cup after supper, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood.
Whenever you drink it, do this as a memorial of me.”
What a big mystery, a man to have such a big power to make the bread and wine to
became The body and blood of Jesus Christ, Mwili na Damu…., but is not the
priest…. Priest can*t say… take this, all of you, and eat of it, for this is my body,
which will be given up for you. …” take this, all of you, and drink from it, for this is
the chalice of my blood, the blood of the new and eternal covenant, which will be
poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Do this in memory of me.”
As the little prince says…” It is only in the heart that one can see rightly; what is
essential is invisible to the eye.” Yes only with the heart eyes someone can see that
Jesus is in the priest.
But I said in the beginning …”Is time to love, and also a time to hate”, yes, we can
see that everywhere and always, and Jesus said “In this world you will have trouble.
But take heart! I have overcome the world.”, the hate is present…
Also today, watching the facebook, some people are powerful in faith, other are
coming back to the faith, but is also some people who are against God, Church,
Priests, others are leaving the faith…Love and Hate….Love and hate are fighting,
like in the sequence of Easter: “Death with life contended: combat strangely ended!
Life’s own Champion, slain, yet lives to reign.”
This is our faith, this is our hope, Life, Love have won, and with Him all of us we
can won the fight against sin, against disease, and I believe that with God we will won
this fight against this Coronavirus, no matter what that means, being in this life and
praying for others, or being in eternal life, also praying for others to keep their faith
and hope alive.

Tumsifu Iesu Christu.