So yesterday was memorial day. A day to commemorate those soldiers who fight and die for our freedom. We remember them and thank them for the sacrifice they make willingly on our behalf. Remembering them in this way is a solemn occasion. Our culture tends to make a party out of it and forget about the authentic meaning of the day. It trivializes our heroes.
But don't we do that every day? To the most wonderful Hero that has ever been?
The one who died for all of us.
A death that He did nothing to deserve.
A death by which He gained nothing, but only benefited mankind.
A most horrible, excruciating, painful, torturous death.
One that was added to by the weight of every sin committed by men throughout all time.
Every single day of our lives, a memorial is offered. A living sacrifice that we so often neglect. Not everyone has the time or resources to go to Mass every day... but we should never forget it. We should never trivialize it.
But we do. Christmas, Easter... Catholic celebrations filled with light and real joy are trivialized and commercialized into something unworthy of the name "holy day."
"Do this in memory of me."
Every day should be memorial day.
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