HAPPY EASTER

    (picture is of our chapel with its Easter look)

 

A GLORIOUS EASTER TO YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES

    from the friars at our Franciscan Prayer Fraternity

 

SOME EASTER REFLECTIONS:

 

"It's all about life!   It is Easter!   Easter is about life: life where we least expect to find it, life that overcomes the power of evil and death .... as Christians, we are Easter people -- people who support, uphold, and proclaim life.  Like Mary, Peter, and the other witnesses to the resurrection, we are invited to recognize life in new ways, even where all seems to be darkness, for our God is the God of resurrection, the God of life."  (Sr. Barbara Bozak, CSJ)

 

"Jesus rises whenever power is used well, cargo dispelled, earth shaken at its core by the tremble of a trumpet sounding,  "This is enough."   You sing Alleluia.  You are trumpeted and twinkled into another version of time.  The late author, May Sarton, talks about how she finally became herself.  For too long, she says, she wore other people's faces.  Not everyone is free to wear his or her own face.  When we begin the Easter experience, we wear our own faces, and those whose faces we can barely look into also wear their own.  All are free from death.  Alleluias ring out, even in the world of lies and maybes.  This is resurrection.  This is Easter."  (Rev. Donna Shaper)