Jesus Christ is Risen... "He is risen indeed"....The holiest week in the liturgical year is the Holy Tridium. In latin, the tridium means three days. We gather to honor the Lord's Last Summer on Holy Thursday, Holy Friday the Crucifixion of our Lord, And Holy Saturday the Resurrection and Ascension of our precious Lord. Forty days before the Ascension of Christ we fast, we pray, we spend hours alone with our Lord to rediscover ourselves and our lives living in Him. For He lives in us in a real and powerful way. Do we take the time to recognize the almighty presence of our Lord? We should. Our creator should be in the forefront of our very lives, in order to receive his grace and blessing. We live in the world that He had created. We live in his love. We live in his beauty. We must thank him daily and serve him daily in the way we act, speak, and care for ourself and others. He gave us life. Life in our mothers womb. Life that was meant, not for this world, but for eternity. We are here for a short time, we are not meant to love the things of this world. We can enjoy them but ultimately we were meant to love God. To love others. To encourage the discouraged. To love the unloveable. To fill in all the gaps where God is missing. Even the air we breathe is given to us by God in this very moment. He can take it away from us anytime that he wishes. But God loves us so much in our imperfections he gives us many chances to live in his perfection. We deny him over and over and over again, but why? Hasn't he gone through enough? He was hung on a cross, with nails pierced in his hands and feet, he wore a crown of thorns and was spat upon and humiliated for our sins so that we can find hope in his suffering and be with him forever when we die. But before then you and I will experience our very own via della rosa. Our own cruicifixion will happen and we may not be crucified with nails on a cross, we will suffer physical, and mental pain, nothing compared to the love our Lord himself experienced for the salvation of our sins, and for the salvation of our very souls. Christ had to die a profound death, in order to get the attention of all of creation, it had to be that brutal, otherwise, we may not have discovered him.
Today is Easter Sunday and Jesus has arose once again in our hearts, and in our souls, and in our minds, and we say.... "Alleluia"... Let us rejoice, again and again in what our risen Lord has done for all of humanity through his agony, death, and resurrection. May our lives be a fraction of his reflection of love on earth. May his message of Easter, ring true in all hearts still searching for the truth. Jesus I love you... Save souls...
