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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

Thought for the Day # 21 – Sunday April 5, 2020

“Sunday, The Lord’s Day”

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

The Lord’s Day. Sunday.

One day, a mother said to me, “I try to gather all my children around
the table with my husband to share a Sunday meal, and I have to reserve from
six weeks to two months in advance to be able to get everyone around the
table! ”

These days, we have the pandemic itself, which in a way, is gathering
us, bringing us together. Perhaps we could learn, through this ‘downtime’
that is imposed upon us, to rediscover Sunday. Sunday as the Lord’s Day but
also the Lord’s Day in the family, because the Lord’s Day is a reminder that we
come from God, but also that the family comes from God. And that the family
is called to grow in unity, in communion.

How can Sunday become a day of replenishment, of strength? Instead
of being busy 24 hours a day/seven days a week, in the rat race, each one busy
running errands from one place to another, finding it difficult to meet up. Why
not make the best of the time we have been given, that has been imposed on us,
to learn to rediscover Sunday, so that we may continue afterwards to experi-
ence it as a day where we get together?

It is true that society must help to make that possible. When every-
one works outside the home on Sunday, it’s not easy! But there are people in
society who are starting to ask questions about Sunday, whether of
the government or through the media, to find out whether Sunday can be a
day when the family can get together, be together, can discover each other and
can rest together, with God.

Collection of texts by the Most Rev. Christian Lépine 32