But take care as you value your lives!  Do not forget the things which you yourselves have seen, or let them slip from your heart as you live;  teach them, rather, to your children and to your children’s children.  Deuteronomy 4: 9

“It is memory that we enter into a nurturing and sustaining relationship with Christ.  In his farewell discourse . . . Jesus reveals to his closest friends that only in memory will real intimacy with him be possible, that only in memory will they experience the full meaning of what they have witnessed.  They listened to his words, they saw him on Mount Tabor, they heard him speak about his death and resurrection, but their eyes and ears remained closed and they did not understand.  The Spirit, his spirit, had not yet come. . . . The great mystery of the divine revelation is that God entered into intimacy with us not only by Christ’s coming, but also by his leaving. . . . In Jesus, no division existed between his word and his actions. . . .  Saintliness means living [as Jesus lived]. . . .”

to read the rest of this devotional see Show Me the Way: Daily Lenten Readings by Henri Nouwen