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Apr

A New Dawn

Categories: Personal

I thought that my previous entry about my reflection on Christ’s resurrection will be my last entry before I take my hiatus for the Holy Week…

But here I am now, hopeful as ever and faithfully clinging to that promise of Easter.

The song in my previous post has taken a new meaning in my life this week.

My grandmother (my mother’s mother) took her final bow to this earthly life at around 7:20AM today. My mother was there, nursing her until her very last moment.

While all of us in the family mourn, I hold to that firm hope in my heart that she has experienced a new dawn – with the light of a million mornings.

Farewell Lola Pilar!

Apr

The Hope of Easter

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Categories: Personal
Tags: Christ's resurrection, Easter, Easter Sunday, light of a million mornings, resurrection

“If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.” The Resurrection above all constitutes the confirmation of all Christ’s works and teachings. All truths, even those most inaccessible to human reason, find their justification if Christ by his Resurrection has given the definitive proof of his divine authority, which he had promised. – The Catechism of the Catholic Church, para 651.

The fulfillment of all the Biblical promises was consummated by Christ’s resurrection. The very basis of the validity of our faith in the Messiah hung in the balance one Sunday morning 2000 years ago… But the stone was moved and the tomb was empty!

May we have the hope that Easter is meant to bring us – a new life! An aspect of the Paschal Mystery is revealed to us. By adoptive filiation, we share in the real life of God’s Son. Christ’s resurrection is giving us the hope that one day a new life will be given to our bodies and that we will share in His resurrection.

This Easter, let us renew our hope and refresh our souls in the promise that it brings.

May the light of a million mornings dawn in us all!