We ARE an Easter people and Alleluia is our song!
Happy Easter dear Friends!
St. John Paul II would tell us repeatedly: “We ARE an Easter people and Alleluia is our song!” May our church shake with joy this day, because it was given to us by the Father himself who raised his only Son from the grave. The preface of Easter Sunday Mass echoes what the Church experiences during the Easter season: “Therefore, overcome with paschal joy, every land, every people exults in your praise O Lord…”
We gather this Easter to share this joy together. We share in the Good News of the Resurrection, and we rejoice in something that we probably took for granted until last year: that we get to gather here in our church to celebrate Easter.
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in his last Easter homily as Pope said: “Easter is the feast of the new creation. Jesus is risen and dies no more. He has opened the door to a new life, one that no longer knows illness and death.” As we start to see light at the end of the great darkness of this pandemic, we realize that the light of Christ has been with us all along. This light calls us to cast off the despair of this past year. The light of the Risen Christ indeed calls us to live in the joy of the Resurrection, and to share that joy with the entire world!
May you and your families have a blessed Easter!
Fr. Stan
