Lent With Saint Thomas More

Form his last book, The Sadness of Christ:

When Jesus had spoken these words, and said grace, they went forth into the mount of Olivet.’
Albeit that Christ at the time of his supper had had so much godly communication with his
apostles, yet forgot he not at his departing to make an end of all together, with thanksgiving to God. But
how unlike, alas! be we to Christ, which bear the name of Christian men, and yet at our table do use, not
only many vain and idle words (whereof Christ hath given us warning that we shall yield a full strait
account), but also very hurtful and perilous, and at last when we have eaten and drunk our fill, unkindly
get us our way, forgetting to give thanks unto God the giver of all, that hath so well fed and refreshed us.

In the hurly burly of life it is often all too easy to forget God.  Let us ever recall the prayer said by Major General Jacob Astley  prior to the first battle of the English Civil War at Edgehill:  “O Lord, Thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget Thee, do not thou forget me.”