Resurrexit Sicut Dixit!!!

The Lord has risen indeed! Man, this Holy Pasch is an amzing time. It is a time when all things are made new. It is not as if Jesus wasn't raised during Lent, or that He is not risen during Christmas, but this is that special time of year, coinciding with the Passover of the Jews, when we really focus on His rising from the dead. This is usually especially powerful after the journey of Lent in which we are trying to experience death-death of our sins, our selfishness, our habits that are blocking us from knowing Him more fully. So here we are at Easter when we exalt Him again with the Alleleuia, we give praise with the Gloria. We have just walked with Him in the desert and we have recalled that He left us His very presence in the Eucharist on Holy Thursday, we traced the footsteps of His Passion and Death on Good Friday, we sat in the darkness and silence of the tomb on Holy Saturday, and we exalted His fulfillment of our redemption when he rose early on the first day of the week, Easter Sunday. I pray that we might be found knowing Him, wanting to grow ever closer to Him. I pray that we realize what has happened and the freedom that we live in now, the grace we have been given. I pray all these things for myself and for all of you. I pray that after we have suffered with Him, we might also rise with Him. I don't know how many of you read this, but I pray for all those who do that you come to know more fully the glory of the resurrection.