Dearest Faithful & Friends,
During these difficult and confusing times, perhaps many of us are finding it difficult to fully immerse ourselves in the spirit of the Easter season. Yet this feast for which we have prepared by forty days of prayer and penance should not pass us by unnoticed.
The simple but profound truth of Christ’s Resurrection should remind us all how much Our Lord really loves us: so much so that in order to save us from death, He Himself suffered death for us. In order that we might live, He sacrificed His own life on Calvary.
He did this to deliver us from death and loss worse than any that is presently being held over our head by the current pandemic. He rescues us from the eternal misery and death that we deserve, that we chose for ourselves. True love does not ask if the recipient is worthy, true love simply gives. Christ, the Lamb of God, gave us His all, because His love for us is infinite.
His glorious resurrection from the dead is proof that He is the Lord and Giver of Life, and it is a pledge of our own future glory if we will die with Him to sin, so that we may rise with Him to a new life of grace, and ultimately to everlasting life in heaven, where there will be no suffering, sickness, or death to threaten us any longer.
“Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us,” St. Paul exclaims in today’s epistle, “Therefore let us keep the feast … with the unleavened bread of sincerity of truth.” Let us recount today (and every day) the many reasons we have to rejoice and be thankful, chief of which is the Resurrection of Our Blessed Saviour and the newness of life that it offers to us, and in which we are called to walk with Him.
Yours in His Sacred Heart,
Bp. Louis A. Montelongo & Fr. Jonathan E. Derrington
