On interrupted meditation

Someone asked of a list that I belong to, what was read to the Pope that morning at the Third hour. Apparently someone had great need to retrace those steps.

If it was Saturday morning, and I just don't know, and did not want to investigate. Then the reading would have been from Romans 5:10-11:

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more surely, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life. But more than that, we even boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

In all of the hubub since the death of the Pope, I expect that many of us have been distracted from the Easter Season. John Paul II died on the Saturday within the Octave of Easter and Benedict XVI received the Pallium and Fishers Ring on the Fifth Sunday of Easter.

Somehow all of this is part of the Paschal Mystery, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son.

Perhaps, throughout the remaining Easter season, we might be able to turn away from the Spectacle, and return our thoughts to the reconciliation wrought for us.