God is Dead, and We Have Killed Him

hrist became obedient to the point of death,
even death on a cross.
Because of this, God greatly exalted him
and bestowed on him the name which is above every other name." -Philippians 2: 8-9

Throughout the World, there is no single time when the Mass is not said. Endlessly, in a fashion the priests who ran the temple in Jerusalem, where the blood of animals flowed every day, could not even have imagined--without end, Jesus is truly sacrificed to God in a perfect act of sacrifice. The Son is offered again to the Father. But in any particular place, today is that day of days, when no sacrifice is made, when we pause our celebration of the new covenant so that our attention may be wholly focused on the incredible mystery. The lone day when Nietzsche's famous dictum holds true in the literal sense: "God is dead, and we have killed him." We remember your death, O Lord. 

Help me to live this day as if it were my last, to unify myself with Your sacrifice, to remember my sins, and the terrible cost. Amen.