We need to die to the brokenness (Fr. Patrick Michaels)

   Unless we allow ourselves to be vulnerable and to be mistaken, Jesus doesn’t die in us. Unless we recognize that we are imperfect, Jesus doesn’t die in us, and he doesn’t rise in us either. We need his death in us. We need to die to the brokenness within ourselves so that we can rise from it, so that he can lift us up. It’s not something we’re doing for ourselves; it’s something he is doing in our lives, but we need to let him. When we are vulnerable and we know that we don’t have all the answers, when we know that we need him in our lives, we can allow him to die in us and then raise us. But if we don’t, it’s not going to happen. So we need to take the Penitential Rite seriously at Mass—as a moment when we allow Christ to die in us, so that he can lift us up through the Eucharist, gather us together, unite us in his infinite love. 

--Fr. Patrick Michaels,
Scripture Class, March 24, 2022

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