Dear Everyone
How do we feel about Easter? I suspect this depends upon how we feel about Jesus. If we have a personal relationship with him then Easter can filled for us with many graces and blessings and even greater closeness to him.
The Kerygma is incredibly relevant in Holy Week. This will be in the first person rather than the third s it usually is:
“I love you. I died for you. I am at your side to enlighten, strengthen and free you” These eighteen words can change our lives forever.
But if Easter is merely superficial and token and obligatory, then last Easter and this Easter will be the same old, same old it has always been, then that’s incredibly sad. The graces and the blessings and the fusion-union with Jesus just doesn’t happen.
Let’s beg for that bond because having Jesus in our lives changes everything. And we will want to be with people who feel the same.
It’s a truth in living life: what we put into something is what we will get out of that something.
When we give the supreme act of self-sacrifice of Jesus our time, energy and attention, Jesus will give his time, energy and attention overwhelmingly in return.
Happy Easter, everyone.
Take care
Fr. Patrick