Catholic Family Vignettes

The Son of Man betrayed for thirty pieces of silver…and so begins Spy Wednesday, the day of betrayal. The day which Judas Iscariot offered up his beloved Master and sealed His fate with a kiss.  How often it is that the world wants to portray Judas as misunderstood, pressured, well-intentioned, even noble. We are, once again, to be subjected to a docu-drama (h/t to Instauratio Catholica), which seeks to exonerate not only Judas, but Caiaphas and Pontius Pilate, as well. The BBC film even bears a title of such pathetic irony…The Passion.  Certainly not to be confused with The Passion Of The Christ, you can be sure His Passion will play only a very small part.

Let us offer a prayer of reparation, dear friends. On this day of betrayal, let us seek to offer our dear Lord consolation for the many outrages and offenses the world continues to mete out.

“Golden Arrow”

(This prayer is said to have been revealed by Jesus Himself to a Carmelite Nun of Tours in 1843 as a reparation for blasphemy. “This Golden Arrow will wound My Heart delightfully,” He said, “and heal the wounds inflicted by blasphemy.”)

May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most mysterious and unutterable Name of God be always praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in heaven on earth and under the earth, by all the creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ in the most Holy Sacrament of the altar.