Happy Easter!
Happy Easter! Christ Is Risen!
We've struggled to keep our Lenten discipline. We've tried our best to remain recollected during Holy Week. Every year brings its own challenges.
As we did our best to keep our spiritual focus, we attended to the duties of our state of life diligently. Meanwhile, the world, the flesh and the devil continued to throw every possible obstacle in our way.
That's just how it goes in this Vale of Tears, isn't it?
But now it's time to celebrate the Resurrection of Our Lord, Jesus Christ. It is the most glorious time of year we now enter: Easter.
Of course, all the distractions we've struggled to keep at bay won't go away now that the glory of Easter has arrives. The war in Europe, inflation, our nation divided, the phony and false main stream media that leads so many of us down rabbit holes of lies, manipulation, and fear - and this is only the short list. Nevertheless, Easter brings the joy of the Resurrection. If that joy butts heads with the troubles we mentioned that have piled on in recent years, so be it.
Reminder: Our Lord, as a result of His Passion, Death, and Resurrection,
has overcome the world. Hold that thought. Treasure it. It will provide
ballast and balance in the face of all the distraction, disruption,
dysfunction, and discombobulation that the world's troubles continue to drop on our
heads.
So why bring up troubles on this
glorious day? For one thing, because, despite Our Lord's ultimate
triumph, there's
no use pretending everything's hunky-dory when it isn't. Easter calls us to celebrate and be joyful despite our troubles. If we waited until we had no troubles, until the world was Paradise, well, we'd be waiting for the end of the world, not celebrating Easter.
Easter looks through and past all
this. Yes, we're still here in the Vale of Tears until our own (we hope
and pray) triumph. We celebrate the Resurrection, trust in Our Lord's
ultimate triumph, and ask for the grace and the courage to face whatever
awaits us.
Let's bring Easter to work with us throughout the Easter Season, just as we tried to bring Lent to the workplace.
As for our personal lives, give Easter the chance to permeate all we think, say, and do. Start with the fundamentals: Pray, receive the
Sacraments, spend time reading good spiritual works, the Scriptures, as
well as continuing study of our Catholic Religion. There's always more
to learn. Anchor our Catholic Faith on solid ground with these daily
efforts.
In all this, our goal must always be to grow closer to Our Lord. He just proved the depth of His love for us. We know this if we meditated on His Passion during Lent and now revel in His Resurrection.
So
despite the troubles that are never far from us,
Easter still injects a joyful energy that keeps us on our toes, not
simply to do our jobs, but perhaps even to spiritually dance to the
joyful "Alleluias" that we'll be hearing in abundance during the glorious Easter Season.
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