What people remember - and forget

 

Become a Light

 

Reflection selected by Deacon Steve.

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 there is an Easter is something to be grateful for. 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.

Yes, Easter is the apex of feasts, the feast of all feasts- Christ is risen! …It is eternal – it picks you up and drops you into eternity. 

God loves me. He loves me when I am good and when I am not so good, because he loves sinners. He forgives them too. His mercy is infinite and so is his love, his goodness, his forgiveness. My hand nestles easily in the immense hand of God, and I shiver with delight. 

Christ is risen! Let us love one another as Christ loved us. Then we are clothed in the shining garments of one who is baptised, one whose garments shine from far away and even through the night. Then we become a light to our neighbour’s feet.

- Catherine Doherty, “Season of Mercy; Lent and Easter” Madonna House Publications, 2011, Combermere, p. 92 – 95

The Test of Progress

 

The test of our progress

is not

whether we add more

to the abundance of those

who have much; 

it is

whether we provide enough

for those

who have too little.

― Franklin D. Roosevelt