This put up is predicated on Week Seven of An Ignatian Prayer Journey.
It’s the evening of the Passover meal, the evening earlier than your demise.
You aren’t the calm, managed, repetitive voice we hear every week at Mass.
You’re determined, keen, attentive, and emotional.
You say, “You haven’t any concept how a lot I’ve appeared ahead to consuming this meal with you.”
You’re along with your closest companions for the final time as considered one of them. You’re determined to be assured they get it, that they perceive all you could have tried to show them. You could have been with them day in and time out for 3 years. the highway forward won’t be straightforward for them with out you. However most of all, you need them to know the way a lot you like them.
You don’t have anything to offer them—no property to cross on to them as your heirs, no belief fund to go away them financially safe, and no earthly kingdom or dynasty. After 33 years on this earth, you amassed no materials wealth. You even needed to borrow the donkey to get there that evening. You don’t have anything to disclose to your closest pals. Nothing—besides this: this loaf of bread and this jug of wine.
On the evening earlier than you die, materials wealth not issues to anybody. The one factor that issues is having your family members close to and being certain they know the way a lot you like them.
And you’re taking that bread and wine, and also you break it and share it and provides it away. You give away all that you’ve left, as if saying in a single determined plea, “Please, please, on this reward, see how a lot I like you. It’s all I’ve left, however greater than something I would like you to have it. I would like you to recollect me by it. I would like you to recollect how a lot I like you.”
I would like you to recollect how a lot I like you.
That is your final will and testomony to every of us.
