March
27, 2005
Easter Sunday
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the best news...yet
Welcome
This
Easter we welcome new brothers and sisters through the Easter Sacraments:
Evelyn Acevedo
Mita Bertrand
Evelyn Bonilla
John Carpino
Rolando Chavez
Meg Clappi
Joanna Mendoza
Erik Mendoza
Michele Mroz
Nahun Ramirez
Christine Rivera
Luis Serrano
Glenn Simmons
Aldin Simmons
Thomas Simmons
Jason Surillo
Lourdes Ventura
Let us continue to pray for our Neophytes as they enter more deeply
into the life of Christ in our parish.
Thanks!
So many people made the liturgies of Holy Week so uplifting and dynamic.
Thanks to all who gave their time and talent to honor God and to help
us all celebrate the great mysteries of Jesus’s death and resurrection.s.
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Past Columns:
March 20th: What are You
Doing For Easter?
March 13th: The Stench
March 6: To Tell or Not
To Tell
February 27: Dry Mouth Dry
Soul
February 20: Good to Be
Here
February 13: And he was
hungry?
Ash Wednesday '05
February 6: Ashes Already?
January 23: Catholic Schools
Week
January 16: Continued Charity
January 9: Migration
January 2:All is bright?
Columns from 2004
Columns from 2003
Columns from 2002
First
let me wish you and your family a Blessed Easter on behalf of our entire
staff at St. Brigid’s. We’re about to begin these fantastic
fifty days to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus in our lives. I’m
glad you’re here for the journey.
But as you can see in our Easter
gospel this day, it didn’t start out so well. For us, with a vantage
point of 2000 years we see the empty tomb as a triumph. But imagine what
the friends of Jesus felt when they went to his tomb and found it empty.
(What would YOU feel if you stopped off at Holy Rood after mass today
to visit the grave of a friend or relative only to find an empty hole?)
So Easter starts off not with the
best news. The disciples are still reeling after the brutal death of Jesus
and now comes the news that his body is not where they left it! We can
only imagine the confusion, anger, pain, disbelief, and fear that surged
through them. But then again, didn’t Jesus tell them he’d
rise from the dead? So amidst all the fear and confusion, there would
have been hoping against hope that it could be true. We’ll have
to wait til next week to see what happens next. So in the meantime let’s
wrestle with where the disciples are at the first Easter.
They might remind us of ourselves
at a vulnerable time -- filled with mixed feelings...filled with hope
one moment, not daring to hope the next,,,not knowing where Jesus is at
a given moment of trouble...not knowing what to do when our expectations
aren’t met.
If this feels familiar, then you know how to celebrate Easter. The wonder
of the resurrection comes to us gradually through out struggles. But it
IS coming. You’ll see...these next fifty days will be filled with
all of Jesus’ surprising appearances and he’ll bring healings,
and moments of peace, food and forgiveness, and he’ll leave his
followers with a Sprit-filled mission.
Get ready! We’re setting
out toward Pentecost as one Body of Christ, the parish of St. Brigid’s.
Alleluia!
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