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Easter Vigil 2013

4/9/2013

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How do you know that somebody has a
flu?  ..... The person coughs and sneezes, has high temperature or a running nose.
 How do you know that somebody is alive?  ...... The person walks and sings, eats and drinks, works hard or works hard not  to work, sleeps and wakes up, loughs and cries.
 How do you know that somebody has fallen  in love? Well, the girl looks at the boy as if he were the only male in this  valley of tears. The boy may start reading books and watching movie she would  never bother about otherwise, but he does it to impress the girl.
 How do you know that somebody is a Christian? That's a big question. Isn't it? To answer this big question I would like to use the conversation I had with a parishioner some days ago. She asked me: "What is this Spirituality thing you are going to study when you leave  our church in a couple of  weeks." Well, spirituality is not simply you character or your temperament. It  is not a skill to focus or calm yourself down. Spirituality isn't the ability to  be inspirational either. To understand it properly let's listen what St Paul  wrote in one of his letters: "I don' live my life any longer it is Jesus Christ  who lives in me." Spirituality is simply manifestation of the dwelling of Christ  in a person. Spirituality it is Christ Jesus visible through the actions, words  and decisions of a Christian. Not all of us are called to study Spirituality but  all of us are called to Spirituality, all of us are called to allow Christ to  shine through us. This is the powerful message of this Holy Vigil of the  Resurrection of The Lord. It is not a celebration of an even of the past but it  is a celebration of joy and praise that the Spirit of the Risen Lord is poured  into our humanity. We can be spiritual people because The Lord is Risen and  living in us. I hope and I pray that our constant wish and prayer may be like  this: "Lord live in me. Live in my decisions. Live in my words. Live in my  actions. May people watching me see you."
 Dear Friends of Jesus who have followed him faithfully through the last three days like Our Lady and St John. I'd like to give you an image of how important this Paschal Mystery (the Mystery of his death and Resurrection) is. I'm going to use a brilliant story of The Lord of the Ring. I need to confess that I never read the book. I've tried a few times but the greatest achievement was when I got to the page 20. However I enjoy the movies based on the Tolkien's books. As you may be aware Tolkien created this story to get the message of Jesus across. Those of you who are familiar with the  story know that it is full of wars and battles. It is easy to be captivated by  this stuff but the story isn't about those big wars. It is the story of a little  guy called Fredo who I carrying a certain ring. The ring is the source of all  evil. Fredo is making his journey to destroy the ring otherwise nothing will  change. Wars and battles will keep brake in the world. The most powerful scene  is when the ring is destroyed, when Fredo blows up evil from its within. It is  the story of Jesus' Death and Resurrection. Those who crucified him thought they  won. Thy we're sure they managed to get rid of him but what happened that first  Three Days of Easter 2000 years ago was Jesus going to the nest of evil, taking  there not only his holy cross but the power of the Holy Spirit and blowing evil  up in its source. That powerful moment, that can never be fully explained is all  about spreading of goodness initiated by The Lord. All of us who have been  baptised participate in this expansion. Albert who will be baptised in a few  minutes will be immersed in Christ' great victory too.  Always hold fast to what we celebrated   last tree days. Death and evil have been conquered. They have been conquered in  us too.
Christ is risen!


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Pintos
4/12/2013 11:50:14 pm

Enjoyed the Easter Vigil service, it was so well organised and pretty special. By the way the photographs are awesome especially the one with you and Tom :)- Thank you.

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