During his liturgical reflection for the Monday of this Holy Week, Dom Guéranger meditates: “This city is zealous for the exteriors of divine worship; but her heart is hard and obstinate, and she is plotting, at this very hour, the death of the Son of God.”
In our own age we face a culture that has a heart which is both hard and obstinate, described by Pope Saint John Paul II in his encyclical Evangelium Vitae as a “culture of death”. This culture has seen an “eclipse of the sense of God and of man” and as a result has “lost the sense of man, of his dignity and his life”.
