Happy Easter!

Happy Easter! April 12, 2009

He is risen! Truly, He is risen!


The Morning of the Resurrection by Edward Coley Burne-Jones

Graces of the Resurrection

Jesus…says of his death: I go away, and I will come to you.” It is by going away that he comes. His going ushers in a completely new and greater way of being present. By dying he enters into the love of the Father. His dying is an act of love. Love, however, is immortal. Therefore, his going away is transformed into a new coming, in to a form of presence which reaches deeper and does not come to an end…

Jesus, who is now totally transformed through the act of love, is free from barriers and limits. He is able not only to pass through closed doors in the outside world, as the Gospels recount (see John 20:19). He can pass through the interior door separating the “I” from the “you,” the closed door between yesterday and today, between the past and the future… Now he can even surmount the wall of otherness that separates the “I” from the “you.”

This happened with Paul, who describes the process of his conversion and his baptism in these words: “It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me” (Gal 2:20). Through the coming of the Risen One, Paul obtained a new identity. His closed “I” was opened. Now he lives in communion with Jesus Christ, in the great “I” of believers who have become – as he puts it – “one in Christ” (Gal 3:28)… Believers are never totally cut off from one another. We are in communion because of our deepest identity: Christ within us. Thus faith is a force for peace and reconciliation in the world: distances between people are overcome, in the Lord we have come close (see Eph 2:13)…

The Lord has granted us the light of truth. This light is also fire, a powerful force coming from God, a force that does not destroy, but seeks to transform our hearts, so that we truly become men of God, and so that his peace can become active in the world…

At this hour, let us thank the Lord, because through the power of his world and of the holy Sacraments, he points us in the right direction and draws our hearts upwards. Let us pray to him in these words: Yes, Lord, make us Easter people, men and women of light, filled with the fire of your love.
Pope Benedict XVI

Vanderleun: A Must Read lyrical and visually stunning piece for Easter

The great chant of Easter: an excellent exposition

Deacon Greg: has Seven Stanzas for Easter, by Updike. Also, do read his homily, if you missed it. It’s so good that Whispers in the Loggia picked it up. You’ll like.

Over at Pajamas Media: I have a new piece up, basically reminding us at Easter that God’s ways are not ours, and Him mind not our minds. I expect brickbats and grief for it.

Ed Morrissey has a favorite hymn.

Inside Catholic: Simcha has Chrysostom

If you want a Eucharistic and Sacramental Church: you’d better pray for vocations! This might help

Amuse your friends: Hubble captures The Crown of Thorns Galaxy, (H/T New Advent)

Busy day around here – I’m cooking for 20! God bless all! May we remember that we live in exile, and look at Jesus, only!


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