Daily Mass, , Fifth Week of Lent , Friday, March 26, 2021

Imagine being in Nazareth… “Here God’s yes to humanity and humanity’s yes to God are joined in an invincible alliance.” “We can be stunned by the sense of fulfillment and beauty that emanates from this place. If we wanted to review, even briefly, all the history of salvation starting with creation, we would realize how much God is moved by his great desire to reach human beings and bring them into communion with himself; we would see that human beings, despite the deep nostalgia in their hearts to be in communion with God, too often have gone elsewhere to seek consolation for themselves and have repeatedly betrayed God. But God, even more tenaciously (we could say even more stubbornly), chased them until he reached them here, through Mary’s flesh.” — Encountering Jesus: A Holy Land Experience by Vincenzo Peroni https://a.co/6YxToGv