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Friday, 27 May 2022
Monday, 9 May 2022
The Feast of Feasts
Spiritual Reading selected by Deacon Steve
The Feast of Feasts!
“Easter – the resurrection of Christ! The feast of feasts! The final proof of Christ’s divinity! Easter – the first feast of the early Church, around which all the other feasts grew like stars around the sun.
We celebrate Christ’s Resurrection as something absolutely, fantastically beautiful that has happened, and is still happening. The fact that there is an Easter is something to be grateful for. It is such a happy feast. What can be more beautiful than this passage from death to life, real life? Now death has become a passage. A passage to what, to where, to whom? It is the passage of you to God and me to God. You walk into it and there at the end is Christ and Our Lady, the life that lasts forever and that is lived with God and his blessed Mother. Christ’s resurrection is the most joyous feast in the calendar of the Church, the one in which everything comes together. It is the greatest feast…
Christ’s Resurrection is the earth in which the seed of faith can grow. His Resurrection, when we look at it, opens the tombs of our hearts. Can you hear the stone of doubts, of fears, of expectation, of loneliness, roll away from his tomb? You and I are transfigured and resurrected, too, in an inner resurrection that is like a fire, like an exploding sunrise.”
“Season of Mercy: Lent and Easter – Meditations and Traditions from Catherine Doherty”, Marian Heilberger, ed., Madonna House Publications, Combermere, p 92 & 99
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