June 10
You will endure them in my name
or in the supper
of my passion I gave you my body and blood to be eaten and drunk; and so
now you may do the same on the altar in memory of me. Therefore I unfold
the truth and say to you, my faithful followers: I will not again drink
this cup of anguish in this oppression I now suffer from the Jews until
that day when I rise from the dead and death is overthrown, and I bring
in the day of salvation. Then I will drink with you the cup of your redemption
and show you who are mine your new reason for rejoicing: that the perdition
of the ancient crime is taken away, and the kingdom that my father has
prepared for those who love him is opened to you. What does this mean?
That by my death, which I suffered on the cross, you will know the salvation
of souls; and when I ascend after my resurrection, you will receive the
Spirit, the Comforter, and you will newly understand true doctrine. And
then for my name's sake you will endure many tribulations, and I will endure
them with you; not because I will suffer any miseries in the body after
this, as I did when I was in the world in the body, but because you will
endure them in my name. Therefore I will endure them with you, since you
are in me and I am in you.
From John E. Rotelle, O.S.A., Tradition Day by Day: Readings from
Church Writers. Augustinian Press. Villanova, PA, 1994.
HTML text prepared by David P. Steelman
