Remember Me - Thursday After the Third Sunday in Lent

Consider the mystery of the three resurrections wrought by the Savior of mankind, that of the Ruler's daughter, that of the young man of Naim, and that of Lazarus at Bethany. The young girl had only just died, and was not prepared for burial: she typifies the sinner who has fallen, but has not yet contracted the habit of sin and the indifference consequent upon it. The young man is the sinner who has made no effort to rise after his fall, and whose will has lost its spring; they are carrying him to the grave and if he did not meet our Lord on the way he would be laid among those who can never return. Lazarus is a still more terrible figure. He is already given over to corruption. A stone rolled over the tomb has condemned his body to a slow and inevitable decay. Is it possible for him to revive? Yes; if Jesus deigns to make him an object of His divine power.

In these days the Church prays and fasts, and we with her, that these three forms of death may hear the voice of the Son of God and arise. The mystery of Christ’s resurrection is about to produce its wondrous result in each of these degrees. Let us unite ourselves to this design of the divine mercy, praying urgently night and day to the Redeemer. Then when a few days hence we see the dead restored to life, then shall we cry with the inhabitants of Naim: ‘‘A great prophet has arisen among us ; God has visited His people.”
                                                                                                                                                             - Dom. Geuranger

A true conversion finds God always ready for it.
                                                                                                                                                             - St. Augustine