HAPPY EASTER - Thank You God

Although Easter Sunday is this weekend, the Catholic Church celebrates the Season of Easter for the following six weeks.  It is considered the most important time in the year because we remember that God our Father gave us His only son, Jesus…

• to live among us,
• to show us a peaceful and just way to live,
• to suffer and die on the cross for our sins,
• to rise to new life … and …
• to give us the promise of a new and eternal life with Him and each other in heaven.

To say "I believe in Jesus Christ . . . who rose from the dead," is to say “I believe that the Resurrection goes on and on and on forever.” Every time Jesus rises in our own hearts in new ways, the Resurrection happens again. Every time we see Jesus where we did not recognise him before—in the faces of the poor, in the love of the unloved, in the revelatory moments of life, Jesus rises anew. The real proof of the Resurrection lies not in the transformation of Jesus alone but in the transformation awaiting us who accept it.

An Easter Prayer

Jesus, who suffered and died for me,

help me to understand that in every life,

something good fails, something great ends,

something righteous is taken unjustly away,

something looms like an abandonment by God.

Give me the wisdom to know that You rose from the dead as a sign to us

that every one of these “little deaths” is life becoming new all over again.

Be with me in living Your Resurrection over and over again.

Help me to be attentive to Your presence in the signs of my everyday life

where I may come in contact with you.

Praise to you, risen Lord, who keeps on meeting me in the garden of my life,

who keeps on calling my name.

May I be open to hear your voice, allowing me to feel loved, blessed and cherished.

Praise to you, risen Jesus, who walks with me on my life’s journey,

coaxing the ache out of me.

Comfort and strengthen me with Your holy, peaceful presence

And help me to carry your risen presence with me,

wherever I go and to whomever I meet.