Resurrexit, sicut dixit! This most joyous day we celebrate that great truth which separates Christians from all others: The fact of the resurrection from the dead of Our Blessed Lord Jesus, the only Christ.
This one most magnificent and holy event in the history, (His story) of the world is what gives us hope and is the cause of our joy.
Our Blessed Saviour was either a lier, a madman or He is what He said He is, the Son of God and soon coming King. It’s as simple as that. One chooses to believe Him or deny Him.
The Holy Saturday Night is my favorite time as I think of the joy that the dear Blessed Mother (and all the apostles and disciples) would receive in the morning. I light a candle after the Liturgy of Good Friday in front of her statue and it is kept burning until Easter morning when the Light of the World made manifest His power and revealed Himself to His Holy Mother, the Magdalen and then the others. I get up in the middle of the night to keep vigil with her, for certainly she of all people knew that there was a great event coming, that Calvary was not the end. Did she not “…keep in mind all these things; Pondering them in her heart?” We do not know completely but it is my personal belief that she suspected something wonderful.
It is quite revealing that at the foot of the Cross women outnumbered men by four to one! Let us remember that it is the women who step forward when the going gets rough and it is the men who keep THEM company! Yes, thank the good Lord for fine and courageous men but it is the women who endure and go where men fear to tread. My dear sister Rosemary told me that if it were up to men to bear the children the human race would have died out long ago! God knew what He was doing and it is the women I most admire.
As you worship the New Adam, the Author and Finisher of our salvation, the one mediator between God and man, remember the New Eve, Our Blessed Mother Mary, who was given to us as our Mother from the Cross by Our Lord Himself. “Ave Maria; Eva’s name reversing!” It was she who said yes to God so that her creator could be made flesh. Her yes allows us the opportunity to choose Him. May we not let her down. A happy, joyous and blessed Easter Sunday and season to all! You are remembered at the altar. Bless you+
Fr. Jamie
