Happy Easter to you all! All corners of the Earth celebrate in great jubilation in honor of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ! Through His death, he brought our sins to the grave and cleansed us. Through His Resurrection, we have been given a chance of eternal life with Him forever. We, as Christians, die with Christ by dying to this world. We are not people of this world of earthly things and ideals. We are a heavenly people from God's Kingdom. Through His Resurrection, we rise as new men and women set on fire with Christ's love! We live no longer for ourselves, with our own schemes and our own plans, but we live for His sake and His Will. We are the hands, we are the feet, we are the lips, and we are the hearts by which Christ is made present in this world. He no longer has a physical body and presence on this earth, but is made present through our actions and our spirits. We are the Body of Christ, redeemed through the death of the sacrificial lamb who died to save us from our sins. It's time to carry our own crosses and follow him on the Way of the Cross. As we conclude the Easter Triduum, the holiest days in our liturgical year, we do not just drop our Lenten practices. Through the Easter Season, we learn how to incorporate our fasting, our abstinence, and our sacrifice into daily routine. Through the Easter Season, we learn how to humble ourselves to wash the feet of others through service like Christ did on the beginning of the Triduum at Holy Thursday. Then, we carry our crosses of life, with all its hardships, annoyances, and trials to the golden gates, where we die as Christ did on Good Friday, and enter finally into the gates of the Kingdom. As we enter, we celebrate with a love and joy that the earthly world cannot give to console the spirit. This is Easter Sunday. Actually, this is the celebration we give every Sunday when we congregate in the walls of our Church to receive the Body and Blood of Christ. It just takes opening your heart and making the effort to see with eyes of faith to truly acknowledge and be thankful for these blessings in disguise. Every year, every month, every week, every day, every hour, and every moment is a gift to us from God, the Master of the Universe. Praise be to the King who died on a cross to save His people from their own actions. Amen.
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