| I left you at the end of yesterday’s homily with the fragrance of Mary’s perfume and even more the fragrance of God’s love in the air, a gift to be shared in that same spirit of love with all the world. A fragrance all the sweeter because it was not the overpowering olfactory cocktail of a High Street perfumery but a single note, contrasting with and dispelling the stench of death, like the first shafts of dawn dispelling the dark. What is at stake here is not just the prolongation of life and temporary denial of an inevitable death – Lazarus’s lot was not a completely enviable one – but a life that will break through and break the power of death definitively, once for all. Read more of this post David Thomson | April 16, 2019 at 9:00 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: https://wp.me/poSLL-3HB | 