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St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

“He Loved Them to the End”: A Holy Thursday Meditation

St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

St. Josemaria Institute

Spirituality, St. Josemaria Escriva, Christianity, Christian, Gospel, Catholic, Meditation, Religion & Spirituality, Opus Dei

4.9645 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

In our meditation of the week for Holy Thursday: Fr. Donncha Ó hAodha offers a profound reflection on the enduring, limitless love of Jesus Christ as revealed in the Last Supper and the institution of the Eucharist. Entering the Upper Room with the Apostles, we are invited to contemplate the eternal love of Christ, who “loved them to the end,” and who gives us not a symbol but his very self in the Blessed Sacrament. Fr. Donncha reminds us that Holy Thursday draws us into the heart of divine ...

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My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.

0:07.0

I adore you with profound reverence.

0:10.0

I ask you for pardon of my sins and grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

0:16.0

My mother immaculate, St. Joseph, my father and Lord, my guardian angel, intercede for me.

0:23.6

Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

0:28.6

He loved them to the end.

0:31.6

Jesus, you love us without any limits.

0:35.6

What distinguishes your love from any other love is its eternity.

0:40.3

You are the alpha and the omega and your love like you is eternal. You are love.

0:47.3

As we enter into the mystery of your Pascal mystery, the culmination of your pascal mystery, your passion, death and resurrection.

1:01.0

Lord Jesus, we situate ourselves in that large upper room, ready and furnished, which is like the womb of the church,

1:10.0

where the church comes forth to blossom, to spread

1:14.1

throughout the world.

1:16.5

There in that upper room we see the flickering lamps, we see the faces of the apostles,

1:23.0

your own face, and we belong there too because we are all members of your church of your body of your mystical

1:29.1

body and above all we enter into the reality of your love your love which is to the end to the end

1:38.8

every aspect of holy thursday speaks about the love of the heart of Jesus.

1:45.0

And Lord, we want to enter into that love, to make it our own and to share it with others.

1:54.0

In fact, every aspect of your passion, Lord, is about your love.

1:59.0

In his way of the cross, St. Josimuria has this point for meditation.

2:06.5

An inexhaustible source of life is the passion of Jesus. Sometimes we renew the joyous impulse that

2:15.6

took our Lord to Jerusalem. Other times the pain of the agony

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