Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord

Year of the Family "Amoris Laetitia The Joy of Love"

In other years: Saint Donan (7th century); Blessed Baptist Spagnoli Mantau (1447-1516); Blessed Clara Gambacorta OP (1362-1419); Blessed Maria Mancini OP (-1431) 

Readings of the Day

Rule of Saint Benedict: Ch 62 The Priests of the Monastery

Mass: Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Resp Ps 118; Col 3:1-4 or 1 Cor 5:6b-8; Sequence Victimae paschali laudes; Jn 20:1-9

The right hand of the Lord has struck with power.

MARY, QUEEN OF PEACE,

PRAY FOR US.

ALLEULIA! ALLELUIA! ALLELUIA!

HE IS RISEN!

ALLELUIA!

Happy Easter dear friends and faithful readers near and far. Thank you for being there. United in faith and prayer, we seek the living God and pray especially for all those received into the Church last night at the Easter Vigil. God is praised. We see and we believe that "we were indeed buried with Him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live in newness of life" (Rm 6:4).

Every time in your ordinary life that God calls you to die to something, and in that act to rise again to new life beyond death, it is a practice run for the final return home and the ultimate resurrection. You may be asked to die to your own hopes and plans, to your cherished self-image, to your for-a-while-successful work, to something which is holding you back from God. Each time you let go and say 'Yes', you are obeying the Spirit's call to life beyond death. You are consenting to be a son or daughter of God. Every time you choose to act in real freedom, in love, forgiveness, humility, truth and self-forgetting generosity, you are accepting your dignity as the beloved adopted heir.

(M. Boulding, Gateway to Resurrection, p. 130)

We go forth then, raised with Christ and seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. We think of what is above, not of what is on earth. For we have died and our life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ our life appears, then we too will appear with Him in glory (Col 3:1-4).

This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

(Ps 118)

SAINT DONAN,

BLESSED BAPTIST SPAGNOLI MANTUA,

BLESSED CLARA GAMBORTA,

BLESSED MARIA MANCINI,

PRAY FOR US.

Today's image: Icon of the Resurrection, through the hand of Sister Suzanne, ocso.

© Gertrude Feick 2022