Wow! Where has Lent gone? Here we are....already in Holy Week. We've entered into Jerusalem with Palm Sunday, and today we find Jesus with his friends Lazarus, Martha and Mary. He is with his friends having a meal. In the gospel reading today we see Jesus being anointed by Mary with a costly perfumed oil that Judas takes exception with. Mary anoints his feet and dries them with her hair. What an intimate moment. What an extravagant love!
How many of us would be so extravagant with a loved one? How about with someone we like? How about with someone we don't even know? Love does not nicely calculate the cost. Love gives its all, and its only regret is that it still has not more to give.
It is quite fitting that we remember on this Monday of Holy Week the love of God given to us through the sacrifice of his son. It is extravagant! It goes beyond the comprehension of human understanding, beyond reason. God's love for us goes to great depths and humility to lift us up beyond our sinfulness and limitations.
The gospel reminds us as well that the "house was filled with the fragrance of the oil." Do you smell the fragrance of God's sacrificial love poured over you this week? That fragrance should remind us how far God is willing to go to find us, to redeem us and to love us. May the fragrance of God's eternal and unconditional love permeate your entire being during this Holy Week.
Fr. Mark
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