Easter 'world in its tomb'

Gabrielle Bossis  Prayer YOU AND i.

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Andy [Facebook]. Easter world in its tomb   

Thank you Andy.

Your beautiful sculpted  of the tomb and moved stone open up or hearts to Dawn of Resurrection.

It is the revelation to prayer.

You may follow below the meditation from Gabrielle Bossis, YOU AND i.

Yours ...

fr. Donald

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Easter -  All along the road to the Cathedral I was saying, "Hail, my resurrected Christ!" 

 "As far as your heart is concerned, may the world be in its tomb. May your Christ alone live!"

 At the offertory:

 "Through my rising from the dead, offer the resurrection of your own body at the general resurrection. Offer the resurrection of each member of your family, of all those who have passed before you and those who will outlive you, and of all the people you have ever known  -  all of them. Let them be like a procession around my resurrection for the glory of God the Father."

April 20 -  Le Fresne. Holy Hour.

 "Don't you come to Me with more confidence than to any friend on earth? Aren't you at home in My heart?

It should be that way too, since for each soul, I am the unique, the incomparable One. - Offer this communion between us to the Father in union with the intercourse between the three divine persons. After you receive the Eucharist, offer Him not only My body, but the perfections of My soul:

Paschal Candle - altar cloister daffodils.

  My power and My tenderness; My virtues too – the ones you have loved the best – in order to help you to overcome your weaknesses and failures. You understand – in Me you can find everything: all the love you need to help you. So don’t be afraid of making use of the One who loves you so. Unfold your trust like silk to clothe your request, and you will vanquish Me. My heart is easily taken captive by My little children. Any humble tenderness disarms Me. Yes, before you fall asleep, lovingly and humbly confess the day’s faults and failings. What gain for you! And what eagerness to restore in the heart of your loving Saviour. You remember, when Mary Magdalene had told Me of her sins, she stopped to ask, ‘After that, can I be forgiven?’ I assured her and she went on. But once again she stopped and asked, ‘For this too, may I still hope to be forgiven?’ ‘Yes’, I assured her. Then when all her past had been laid at My feet, she wept from pure love - gratitude, understanding My infinite compassion. Understanding a little, that is. For it is not in you to grasp the infinite. Love to be blind, since it is I who am leading you if you really want to put your hand in Mine. Don’t you think fathers are happy when there little girls leave everything to them in simple tenderness?”

   

Blessed Sacrament  -  kind offer of  new lilies

        June - 19 -  Holy hour.

 "I am the One who makes whole. So give Me your wretchedness. Show it to Me with your two hands like a beggar. I said to the apostles, 'It is I; don't be afraid,' Such gentle, loving words! And I say them over again to you. You remember how only Moses could approach God on Sinai. If anyone else crossed the borderline at the foot of the mountain he was struck dead. And now that the Son of God has come to die for His brothers, He says to you, 'Draw near. Come, love Me without fear, for I love you'."

5th Mon Easter, Make my heart your home. Mass. Fr. Nivard

Eastertide  

Fw: 5th Mon Easter, Make my heart your home     

          

On Monday, 19 May 2014, 10:36, Nivard 

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Daily Reading & Meditation Don Schwager © 2014 adapted

Monday (May 19): “If you love me, keep my word”

Scripture: John 14:21-26

 

   In Jesus' last supper discourse, he speaks of the love he has for his disciples and of his Father's love.

   God made us for love – to know him personally and to grow in the knowledge of his great love for us.

   How can we know and be assured of the love of God?

   The Holy Spirit helps us to grow in the knowledge of God and his great love.

   Jesus said to a recent mystic, “Make my heart your home.” Gabrielle Bosis.

   Let us ask the Holy Spirit to inflame our hearts with the love of God and his word.

 

Father, in love you created us and you drew us to yourself. May we never lose sight of you, nor forget your steadfast love and faithfulness, through Christ our Lord.

Easter 4th Sunday. Jn 10:10. ...have life and have it more abundantly

Nunraw liturgy

Sunday, 11 May 2014

Fourth Sunday of Easter - Year A

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 10:1-10.

Jesus said: «Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate but climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber.
But whoever enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 
...

A thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy; I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly. 

Commentary of the day :   
Saint Augustine (354-430), Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church 

Sermon 46, On the shepherds; CCL 41, 529 

" I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly"

“Thus says the Lord: 'I myself will come'”... This is what he has undoubtedly done and what he will yet do: “I myself am coming: I will seek out my sheep, I will tend them as a shepherd tends his flock.” The wicked shepherds took no care of them because they did not redeem their sheep with their blood... “My sheep hear my voice. I will seek out my sheep from the midst of the scattered sheep and will bring them out from all the places they were scattered on the day of clouds and darkness. No matter how hard it is to find them, I will find them... I will rescue my sheep from foreign lands, I will gather them and lead them back to their own homes; I will lead them to pasture on the mountains of Israel.” 

These “mountains of Israel” are the writers of holy Scripture. They are the pastures where you are to feed if you wish to do so safely. Savor everything you learn from them and reject everything outside. Don't go astray in the mists, listen to the shepherd's voice. Gather on the mountains of holy Scripture. There you will find true delight for your heart. There is nothing poisonous there, nothing dangerous; they are rich pastures... “I will lead them beside rivers, in the best places.” From those mountains we were just talking about, rivers of Gospel preaching pour down since “the voice [of the apostles] resounds to the ends of the earth” and all the ends of the earth provide pleasant and fertile pastures for the sheep. 

“I will cause them to feed in good pasture..., and their sheepfold will be there”, that is to say, there they will rest, there they will be able to say: “It is good to be here; true enough, it is perfectly clear, we have found the truth.” They will take their rest in the glory of God as in a sheepfold. 

(Biblical references : Ez 34,10-14; Ps 79[80],2-3; Jn 10,27; Ps 18[19],5)

Missale Cisterciciense reformatum

2nd Thursday of Easter, "He who believes in the Son of Man"

Fr. Nivard - community barber.

Mass Introduction. Fr. Nivard

Magnificat. Adapted 

 2 Thurs 1 May 14: John 3:31-36 

"He who believes in the Son has eternal life"

   In 1955, Pius XII moved the feast of St Joseph’s patronage of the Universal Church to the 1^st of May. He renamed it the Feast of Joseph “the Worker”.

   Today is also celebrated, worldwide, as Labour Day. In Bamenda, our 20 workers parade through the town with a picture of the monastery printed on their new ‘T’ shirts in the monastery truck.

   St Joseph watches over the entire Church just as he protected the original “domestic Church”, the Holy Family.

   Through the work of his hands, Joseph provided for the material needs of Mary and Jesus. He educated Jesus and patiently schooled him in the trade of carpentry. “Work was the daily expression of love in the life of the Family of Nazareth”.

  

Father, let your Holy Spirit fill us and transform our hearts that we may choose life - the abundant life you offer to those who trust in you, through Christ our Lord.

Octave of Easter 24 April 2014

Monday within the Octave of Easter 

MEDITATION     OF THE      DAY from Magnificat com

SAINT GREGORY PALAMAS

Easter Monday

The Resurrection of the Lord is the renewal of human nature, and the renewal, re-creation, and return to im­mortality of the first Adam who was swallowed up by death because of sin, and through death went back to the earth from which he was formed. In the beginning nobody saw Adam being made and brought to life, for no one existed yet at that time. However, once he had received the breath of life breathed into him by God (Gn 2:7), a woman was the first to see him, for Eve was the first human being after him. In the same way, no one saw the second Adam, that is the Lord, rising from the dead, since none of his disciples were present and the soldiers keeping the tomb had been shaken with fear and became like dead men. But after the Resurrection it was a woman who saw him first of all ....

There is something which the Evangelists tell us in a veiled way, but which I shall reveal to your charity. As was right and just, the Mother of God was the first person to receive from the Lord the Good News of the Resurrection, and she saw him risen and had the joy of his divine words before anyone else. She not only beheld him with her eyes and heard him with her ears, but was the first and only person to touch with her hands his most pure feet. If the Evangelists do not say all this openly it is because they do not want to put for­ward his Mother as a witness, lest they give unbelievers grounds for suspicion.

Saint Gregory Palamas (+1359) was a monk and Archbishop of Thessalonica.

Grcgory Palamas (Saint) From The Homilies, Christopher Veniamln, Ed. and Tr. The Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Essex, UK. Published by Mount Thabor Publishing, 2009. www.thaborian.corn. Used with pemission.

Easter Vigil Exultet The Light of Christ (Lumen Christi)

Nunraw Abbey Liturgy

Saturday, 19 April 2014 Holy Saturday - Easter Vigil, solemnity - Year A
Holy Saturday The women saw  how his body was laid; and they prepared spices and ointments;  and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.  Luke 23:55,56         Holy Saturday (in Latin, Sabbatum Sanctum ), the 'day of the entombed Christ,' is the Lord's day of rest, for on that day Christ's body lay in His tomb.           We recall the Apostle's Creed which says "He descended unto the dead."   It is a day of suspense between two worlds, that of darkness, sin and death, and that of the Resurrection and the restoration of the Light of the World.   For this reason no divine services are held until the Easter Vigil at night.           This day between Good Friday and Easter Day makes present to us the end of one world and the complete newness of the era of salvation inaugurated by the Resurrection of Christ. ************ The Easter Vigil Very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had preparedand they found not the body of the Lord Jesus.  Luke 24:1,3         The night vigil of Easter signifies Christ's passage from the dead to the living by the the liturgy which begins in darkness (sin, death) and is enlightened by the fire and the candle representing Lumen Christi the Light of Christ just as the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, the community of believers, is led from spiritual darkness to the light of His truth.         Christ's baptism, which our own baptism imitates, is represented during the liturgy by the blessing of the water of baptism by immersing (`burying') the candle representing His Body into the font.           During the liturgy we recall God's sparing of the Hebrews whose doors were marked with the blood of the lamb; we are sprinkled with the blessed water by which we were cleansed from original sin through Christ's sacrifice, and we repeat our baptismal vows, renouncing Satan and all his works. We rejoice at Christ's bodily resurrection from the darkness of the tomb; and we pray for our passage from death into eternal life, from sin into grace, from the weariness and infirmity of old age to the freshness and vigor of youth, from the anguish of the Cross to peace and unity with God, and from this sinful world unto the Father in heaven.   The Water         The Easter Vigil includes a blessing of water. The water is a sign of purification and of baptism. Holy water, that is, water that has been ceremonially blessed is a sacramental. Sacramentals are "sacred signs which bear a resemblace to the sacraments[by which the faithful are] given access to the stream of divine grace which flows from the paschal mystery of the passion, death, and resurrection of Christthe fountain from which all sacraments and sacramentals draw their power."    [Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, No. 60. Second Vatican Council Documents]         Some other common sacramentals are blessed palm (and the ashes used on Ash Wednesday made from them), candles, medals, priestly blessings and other prayers.  Water blessed during the Easter Vigil is used for baptisms and other blessings. This water does not last the whole year, so there is a special blessing for holy water used at other times of the year, also. Traditionally the blessing of holy water includes an exorcism, or protection against evil, and the addition of salt, a spiritual symbol of wisdom which preserves our faith.         Catholic churches have basins or `fonts' containing holy water near the entrance so that believers can dip their fingers in it before making the sign of the cross as they enter the House of God as a symbol of purification. This simple gesture reminds believers of their consecration to Christ in baptism, and visibly indicates their acceptance of the Catholic faith. The Light of Christ (Lumen Christi)         The Paschal candle represents Christ, the Light of the World: "I am the light of the world. He that followeth me walketh not in darkness" [John 8:12]. The pure beeswax of which the candle is made represents the sinless Christ who was formed in the womb of his Mother. The wick signifies his humanity, the flame, his divine nature, both soul and body. Five grains of incense inserted into the candle in the form of a cross recall the aromatic spices with which his Sacred Body was prepared for the tomb, and of the five wounds in his hands, feet, and side.          During the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday night the priest or deacon carries the candle in procession into the dark church. A new fire, symbolizing our eternal life in Christ, is kindled which lights the candle. The candle, representing Christ himself, is blessed by the priest who then inscribes in it a cross, the first letters and last of the Greek alphabet, (Alpha and Omega `the beginning and the end') and the current year, as he chants the prayer below; then affixes the five grains of incense.  The Easter candle is the largest and most beautiful in the Church. It is a reminder of the Risen Redeemer "who shining in light left the tomb." It is lighted each day during Mass throughout the Paschal season until Ascension Thursday.   Christ yesterday and today,  the Beginning and the End,  the Alpha and Omega.  His are the times and ages:  To Him be glory and dominion  Through all ages of eternity. Amen http://dailygospel.org

Vatican 'Exultet' English, new  = 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyEAsiDjFP4

 

Second Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday) - Year C

Christ and St. Thomas

Andrea del Verrocchio's sculpture
of the incredulity of St. Thomas.

Octave of Easter (Low Sunday)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave_of_Easter

The term Octave of Easter may refer either to the eight-day period (Octave) from Easter Sunday until the Sunday following Easter, inclusive; or it may refer only to that Sunday after Easter, theOctave Day of Easter (sometimes known as Low Sunday). That Sunday is also known historically as St. Thomas Sunday (especially among Eastern Christians), Quasimodo Sundayand Quasimodogeniti. Since 1970 Low Sunday has been officially known as the Second Sunday of Easter (referring to the Easter season) in the Roman Catholic Church. On April 30, 2000, it was also designated as Divine Mercy Sunday by Pope John Paul II.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 20:19-31.

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Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. 
So the other disciples said to him, "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them, "Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger into the nailmarks and put my hand into his side, I will not believe." 
Now a week later his disciples were again inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, although the doors were locked, and stood in their midst and said, "Peace be with you." 
Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believe." 
Thomas answered and said to him, "My Lord and my God!"
Jesus said to him, "Have you come to believe because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed."
Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of (his) disciples that are not written in this book.
But these are written that you may (come to) believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through this belief you may have life in his name.

NIGHT OFFICE

Origin; Cited in Christ Our Light: Patristic Readings on Gospel Themes, Vol 1, Friends of Henry Ashworth, Ed.. Tr. 1981, Exordium Books, Riverdale, MD. pp. 175-175

From a commentary on Saint John's gospel

by Saint Cyril of Alexandria (Lib. 12: PG 74, 704-705)

This work was written before the outbreak of the Nestorian controversy in 429. Its aim is to bring out the dogmatic meaning of the gospel and to refute heretical teaching. One of the fundamental aspects of Cyril's theology is his insistence on the glory of Christ. In the following reading he stresses the spiritual qualities of the resurrected body of our Lord. The glory of Christ is inseparable from his divinity but it was hidden by his kenosis at the incarnation. This glory our Lord revealed to chosen witnesses at his transfiguration. Hence the allusion to this mystery.

By his miraculous entry through closed doors Christ proved to his disciples that by nature he was God and also that he was none other than their former companion. By showing them his side and the marks of the nails, he convinced them beyond a doubt that he had raised the temple of his body, the very body that had hung upon the cross. He had destroyed death's power over the flesh, for as God, he was life itself.

Because of the importance he attached to making his disciples believe in the resurrection of the body, and in order to prevent them from thinking that the body he now possessed was different from that in which he had suffered death upon the cross, he willed to appear to them as he had been before, even though the time had now come for his body to be clothed in a supernatural glory such as no words could possibly describe.

We have only to recall Christ's transfiguration on the mountain in the presence of his holy disciples, to realize that mortal eyes could not have endured the glory of his sacred body had he chosen to reveal it before ascending to the Father. Saint Matthew describes how Jesus went up the mountain with Peter, James, and John, and how he was transfigured before them. His face shone like lightning and his clothes became white as snow. But they were unable to endure the sight and fell prostrate on the ground.

And so, before allowing the glory that belonged to it by every right to transfigure the temple of his body, our Lord Jesus Christ in his wisdom appeared to his disciples in the form that they had known. He wished them to believe that he had risen from the dead in the very body that he had received from the blessed Virgin, and in which he had suffered crucifixion and death, as the Scriptures had foretold. Death's power was over the body alone, and it was from the body that it was banished. If it was not Christ's dead body that rose again, how was death conquered, how was the power of corruption destroyed? It could not have been destroyed by the death of a created spirit, of a soul, of an angel, or even of the Word of God himself. Since death held sway only over what was corruptible by nature, it was in this corruptible nature that the power of the resurrection had to show itself in order to end death's tyranny.

When Christ greeted his holy disciples with the words: Peace be with you, by peace he meant himself, for Christ's presence always brings tranquility of soul. This is the grace Saint Paul desired for believers when he wrote: The peace of Christ, which passes all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds. The peace of Christ, which passes all understanding, is in fact the Spirit of Christ, who fills all those who share in him with every blessing.

Responsory                                                John 20:19-20

Rising from the dead

the Lord Jesus stood among his disciples and said:

-Peace be with you, alleluia.

The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord, alleluia.

On the first day of the week,

the disciples were gathered behind locked doors for fear of the Jews;

Jesus stood among them and said:

-Peace be with ...

Octave Easter Saturday

Saturday, 06 April 2013 Easter Saturday
DUCCIO_di_Buoninsegna_Appearance_While_the_Apostles_are_at_Table Gospel Mark 16:9-15. Saturday in the Octave of Easter           Today, we end this week with the Gospel of Mark which sums up the appearances of the risen Christ.           The liturgy of this first week of Easter plunges us into an atmosphere of inexpressible joy, of the Church alive in the Holy Spirit and growing rapidly. Entrance Antiphon The Lord led his people to freedom and they shouted with joy and gladness, alleluia!

Night Office: 

Origin; Cited in Christ Our Light: Patristic Readings on Gospel Themes, Vol 1, Friends of Henry Ashworth, Ed.. Tr. 1981, Exordium Books, Riverdale, MD. p. 166

Proclaiming the Gospel

Alternative Reading

From a commentary on the Letter to the Romans by Origen (Lib. 5, 10: PG 14, 1048-1052)

This work, now extant only in a Latin translation by Rufinus, was probably written before the year 244. Origen shows that baptism, referred to in the context, is a sacramental death, burial, and resurrection with Christ. The baptized die to sin and rise again to new life.

• Christ has presented each Christian with the death of sin itself, a gift of faith, as it were, deriving from his own death. Sin can have no more freedom of action in people who believe themselves to be dead, crucified, and buried with Christ, than in those have suffered bodily death. They are therefore said to be dead to sin. This is why the Apostle says: If we have died with him, we believe we shall also live with him. It is important to note the difference of expression: Saint Paul does not say "we have lived" as he says "we have died," but "we shall live." This is his way of showing that death is at work in the present world, but life in the world to come, when Christ is revealed. He is our life, hidden away in God. For the time being, therefore, as Paul himself teaches, death is at work in us.
• But it seems to me that this death which is at work in us has certain decisive moments. As with Christ there was the moment when Scripture says that he cried out with a loud voice and gave up his spirit; then there was the time when he was laid in the grave and its entrance was sealed up; and there was the morning when the women looked for him in the tomb and did not find him because he had already risen, though his actual resurrection was visible to none: so also in each of us who believe in Christ, there must be this threefold pattern of death.
• First of all, Christ's death must be manifested in us by a verbal acknowledgment of our faith in him, since the faith that leads to righteousness is in the heart, and the confession that leads to salvation is on the lips. In the second place, we must show it by putting to death those passions which belong to earth, as we carry Christ's death about with us wherever we go; this is what is meant by death is at work in us. Thirdly, we have to proclaim Christ's death by showing that we ourselves have already risen from the dead and are walking in newness of life. To sum up briefly and clearly: the first day of death is when we renounce the world; the second, when we renounce the sins of the flesh; the third, the day of resurrection, when we are fully perfected in the light of wisdom. In each believer, however, these different stages and his degree of progress can be discerned and known only by God, to whom alone are revealed the secrets of our hearts.
• Christ chose to empty himself and take the form of a slave. He submitted to a despot's rule, and became obedient even to death. By that death he destroyed the lord of death, that is the devil, and set free all those whom death held captive. He tied up the Strong One, conquering him on the cross, and broke into his house in the underworld, the stronghold of death. He then plundered his goods; in other words, he carried off the souls whom the devil held in bondage. This is the meaning of Christ's own parable in the gospel: How can anyone break into a strong man's house and plunder his goods unless he begins by tying the strong man up? First of all, then, he bound him on the cross and so entered his house, that is the underworld. From there he ascended on high, leading a host of captives, namely those who rose with him from the dead and entered the holy city, the heavenly Jerusalem. Because of this, Saint Paul rightly declares that death no longer has any power to touch him.
  

Mark 16:15.

He said to them, "Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature. 

Journey to Emmaus. Such was the prayer Christ made to the Father while he was still on earth

Question: The appearance  of the Angels at the Tomb often accompany the presence of Jesus, at other dramatic moments.

How frequently in the Gospels?

Journey to Emmaus

 Night Office - (A Word in Season 1983)

OCTAVE OF EASTER  Wednesday            Year I

First Reading    From the first letter of Peter (2:11-25)

See 1 Peter 2:21.24

Second Reading

From an Easter homily by an ancient author (Sermo 35,6-9: PL 17 red 1879], 696-697)

This reading from a fourth century homily contrasts the death brought by Adam and the life brought by Christ, the second Adam, through his passion and death. From the first Adam humanity inherited a mortal and corruptible body and death. From Christ, the baptized inherit his risen and glorified life and immortality.

Such was the prayer Christ made to the Father while he was still on earth...

Saint Paul rejoices in the knowledge that spiritual health has been restored to the human race. Death entered the world through Adam, he explains, but life has been given back to the world through Christ. Again he says: The first man, being from the earth, is earthly by nature; the second man is from heaven and is heavenly. As we have borne the image of the earthly man, the image of human nature grown old in sin, so let us bear the image of the heavenly man: human nature raised up, redeemed, restored, and purified in Christ We must hold fast to the salvation we have received. Christ was the firstfruits, says the Apostle; he is the source of resurrection and life. Those who belong to Christ will follow him. Modelling their lives on his purity, they will be secure in the hope of his resurrection and of enjoying with him the glory promised in heaven. Our Lord himself said so in the gospel: Whoever follows me will not perish, but will pass from death to life.

Thus the passion of our Saviour is the salvation of the whole human race. The reason why he desired to die for us was that he wanted us who believe in him to live for ever. It was his will to become for a time what we are at present, so that we might inherit the eternity he promised and live with him for ever.

Here, then, is the grace conferred by these heavenly mysteries, the gift which Easter brings, the most longed-for feast of the year, the beginnings of the new creation; children are born from the life-giving font of holy Church, born anew with the simplicity of little ones, and crying out with the evidence of a clean conscience. Chaste fathers and inviolate mothers accompany this new family, countless in number, born to new life through faith. As they emerge from the grace-giving womb of the font, a blaze of candles bums brightly beneath the tree of faith. The Easter festival brings the grace of holiness from heaven to the children of the human race. Through the repeated celebration of the sacred mysteries they receive the spiritual nourishment of the sacraments. Fostered at the very heart of holy Church, the fellowship of one community worships the one God, adoring the triple name of his essential holiness, and together with the prophet sings the psalm which belongs to this yearly festival: This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad. And what is this day? It is the Lord Jesus Christ himself, the author of light, who brings the sunrise and the beginning of life, saying of himself. I am the light of day; whoever walks in daylight does not stumble. That is to say, whoever follows Christ in all things will come by this path to the throne of eternal light.

Such was the prayer Christ made to the Father while he was still on earth: Father, I desire that where I am they also may be, those who have come to believe in me; and that as you are in me and I in you, so they may abide in us.

Universalis

Wednesday 3 April 2013  

Easter Wednesday

http://www.universalis.com/readings.htm

Christ the source of resurrection and life