Easter  Sunday

Dear {arosjopmers:

At this time of Easter Season, I want to wish each one of you all the special blessings we've come to anticipate from this most holy season, and even a few unexpected blessings, to warm your heart and enrich your life.

Easter is a time for hearing the "Good News" once more and celebrating the sacraments that are signs of the power of Christ's Death and Resurrection. Easter reminds us of our great journey with Christ...to believe and recall our baptismal life.

May the glory and the promise of thisjoyous time of year bring peace and happiness to you and those you hold most dear, and may Christ, Our Risen Savior, always be there by your side to bless you most abundantly.

May God fill this glorious time of resurrection and new life with grace and peace and joy.

Have a wonderful and memorable Easter.

Rev. Dariusz Strzalkowski.

For us Christians, Easter is the greatest feast of all. This is the day when Jesus, our Brother and Lord, broke the chains of death and rose in triumph from his grave. This is the day of the Lord!  This is also our day because Jesus shares with us the fruits of His victory. We are invited to be  part of his life and the life of his Father. We are not orphans in exile. Jesus has redeemed us from our sins and now we are one with him. We have inherited the Kingdom of God.

In the First Reading, the Word of God is presented to us by our first Pope, Peter the First.

In the presence of all, Peter affirmed that he and the disciples of the Lord were witnesses to all that Jesus had done in Judea and in Jerusalem. What was said about Jesus was not fabricated stories. It was the truth. The disciples of Christ lived alongside Him and witnessed everything that He had done and said.

Peter testified that Jesus was indeed crucified and that He had died on the Holy Cross. But God raised Him from the dead on the third day. And, after His glorious Resurrection, Jesus appeared to many of the disciples who were chosen by God as witnesses. In all, it is estimated that Jesus appeared to approximately 500 different persons during the days that followed His Resurrection.

When Jesus came to the disciples, after His Resurrection. He gave them a command to preach to the people and to testify to all that He was the One sent by God to judge the living and the dead, that He was the promised Messiah in fulfillment of the Scriptures.

In the Second Reading, St. Paul encourages the Christian communities to seek the things that are from above where Christ dwells in Heaven. This means that we should set our minds on spiritual things, not on worldly things.

In the Gospel, we read how Mary Magdalene needed Jesus. She wept when she realized that His body was gone, believing that someone had stolen it. She wept because she missed the Divine presence of Jesus. She missed that inner burning desire to be near the living body of Jesus, to follow Him, to hear Him, to feel loved, to be understood and to be forgiven of sins.

Jesus is the Lord of all! It is the will of God that we all rxperience spiritual hunger for the Divine presence of the Lord Jesus. It is the will of God that Jesus feed our spiritual hnger so like Mary Magdalene and the disciples. we will never want to leave His Divine presence.

When we set our minds on Jesus, we do what is spiritual. While we are in this world, we are not of this world. Through faith in Jesus and the Sacrament of Baptism, we have become new crations of the godly seed, called to obey and serve the Lord Jesus in all righteousness.

May God bless all of us on this special; Eater weelemd and during the  Easter Season

                                                                    Fr. D.

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