Immorality

This morning I was an altar server for a funeral Mass in my Parish.
The first reading was from the Book of Wisdom.  I was reminded that this was the reading we chose for my Dad's Funeral Mass as well.  Verse 4 (Wisdom 3:4) says:

For if to others, indeed, they seem punished, yet is their hope full of immortality;

I remember thinking that when reading this passage, it is very important to clearly enunciate the first 't' in "immortality."

 

This led me to think of the similarity between a 't' and a '+' and that in the midst of immorality, it is the cross that saves.  The cross, in the midst of immorality, and clinging to the cross in the midst of immorality, which means repenting of the immoral acts we have engaged in, brings us home to the hands of God, where no torment shall touch us.

 

This is our hope.  Where Christ has gone we hope to follow.  He is seated at the right hand of the Father, interceding on our behalf with the wounds of his suffering.

 

So, let us repent of our immorality, that we may come in the end to immortality.