A Sunday Thought About Taking This Easter Season Seriously
On this Sunday in our glorious Easter Season, a reminder that this holy season lasts 50 days: 40 from Easter through the Ascension; another 10 until Pentecost. Today is only the third Sunday after Easter Sunday. There's a lot more Easter to go! Are we taking this holy season seriously? Or have we slipped back into a kind of "same old, same old" mentality? Father Willie Doyle's diary notes which preserve his thoughts and experiences of Easter Sundays during his life. This particular note reveals his missionary zeal. He never ceased to reach out to those who needed hope despite their current state. Here's a remarkable note that demonstrates that zeal and his dedication to bringing others to Christ. It was written on Easter Sunday 1908, during a mission in Yarmouth: I had a strange experience which seemed providential. In my wanderings through the slums I came across by accident an old woman over ninety who had not entered a church for long, long years. ‘I have led...
