I was rather curious to see whom Magnificat had chosen for its Easter
Sunday meditation. Well, its editors didn’t disappoint me, because it is none
other that Pope Francis himself.
He talks about the newness the women
experienced after the death of Jesus and how newness can make us fearful and
thus, like the apostles, we would prefer to hold on to our own security.
However, the Pope writes, “Let us not be
closed to the newness that God wants to bring into our lives.”
This made me think of Emma Taggart (a parishioner
here) who was received into the Church during the Easter Vigil. She received
the sacraments of adult Christian initiation: Baptism, Confirmation and
Eucharist. What a privilege, but also what a responsibility! It is a great privilege
of what God does to us: in baptism giving us a share in his divine life, in
confirmation bestowing on us the Holy Spirit and in the Holy Eucharist giving
us the Body and Blood of Jesus. The challenge is of course to respond as fully
as we can to those gifts. This doesn’t count just for Emma, but for each one of
us.
I was pleased to see so many at the Easter
Vigil, who came to support Emma and, more importantly, to have a newness in
their own faith journey to say a very fervent “I do” to our baptismal promises.
It made for a very happy Easter indeed.
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