Reflection
In the school holidays we celebrated the centre point of our Liturgical year with the Easter Triduum and we continue to celebrate the Resurrection of Our Lord in this Easter Season.
With the Church we proclaim with joy that Christ Our Lord is truly Risen! The Church has this season of Easter, so we have a long period of time (50 days – longer than our Lentan preparation time) to celebrate, ponder and reflect on the belief in the Resurrection of Our Lord.
In 1 Corinthians 15:14 St Pauls tells us that our faith and preaching of the Gospel is in vain if Jesus is not risen from the dead. The belief in the Resurrection is important. What does the Resurrection mean? What is the significance of the Resurrection?
• The Resurrection confirms all of Our Lord’s works and teachings
• Fulfilment of the Old Testament promises
• Shows the truth of the divinity of Jesus
• Source and Principal of our future Resurrection
In the early Church many of the first Christians died as martyrs proclaiming the Lord is Risen. In fact the mission of the Apostles after the Resurrection and after they received the Holy Spirit was to be witnesses to the Resurrection. Today it is indeed our mission and the mission of the Church to proclaim boldly and without ceasing that Jesus is indeed truly Risen and we live a life of hope, joy, freedom and peace because of the resurrection.
We pray that we can be people who through the way we live bring Jesus’ presence into the world and are witnesses to him.
St Escriva said ‘How I wish your bearing and conversation were such that, on seeing or hearing you, people would say: This man (woman) reads the life of Jesus Christ’.
May we find time in this Easter Season to pray, ponder God’s amazing love for us in the resurrection, read the Gospels and allow the Holy Spirit to transform our hearts so that we can be witnesses who lead people to say, Jesus is truly risen!
Holy Family of Nazareth – Be our inspiration and our guide
Jesus of Nazareth – Help us to grow in faith, wisdom and knowledge.