He is Risen!

Today we awake to find we have journeyed through the desert of Lent. Hopefully we have used this time to shed ourselves of sins that may have kept nagging at us.

Hopefully we have risen ourselves today with a renewed sense of love for God and others as we each leave to celebrate his resurrection today.  This is the day we should more than ever recognize God’s love for us. For as he walked with the disciples he also today walks with you and me. How will we start the conversation today?

Will we start with mundane observances of the day…will we ask how he is doing as we ask others each day…not necessarily meaning it but going through the motions of conversation. Will we keep our thoughts our own and withhold ourselves and our thoughts, our love and our fear?

If we truly believed he was with us would we not all fall to our knees and if and when we were able to stand and walk with him, would we not share everything?

As Catholics we head to Mass today and will indeed find Jesus in the flesh and blood of the Eucharist. He will be with us in Spirit and in the body of Christ surrounding us but also in reality in the body and blood we take into our body and are once again physically united with him once again.

Hopefully we have all emptied ourselves of sin and fear and worry this Lent and now face Christ with not only open hearts and arms but room inside our hearts and lives for the Holy Spirit to reside within us. For our bodies today will become the temple where the Lord enters and resides.

We will know this by our love and our focus on him and love for others.

Do not let this Easter come and go without choosing to follow him more closely than ever, putting aside all things and making him primary in our life.

We come to the table of the Lord today as disciples finally realizing that he was to die and rise again for us…to provide a path to his Father in Heaven for us.

Let go of the worries and fears and baggage we all endure daily and leave it behind.

Today, when you ask others how they are, when you find other pilgrims in front of you, remind yourself that today more than any day we need to see each other for who we really are…beloved children of a God who is Love.