Indeed, Easter is joyful, hopeful. Peaceful, and graceful feast of our eternal victory in Christ Jesus. Yet, it presents us with an everlasting challenge of what kind of life, we live on, in Christ Jesus. Spiritual life in the imitation of Christ and testimonial life before our brothers and sisters in the Christian community. This is the sign of our redeemable life in Christ Jesus.
The resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ opens up to us the fountain of unfathomable mercy of God. The Divine Unfathomable Mercy of God is the Easter gift that the Church receives from the Risen Christ and offers to humanity.
Alleluia! Alleluia!! Alleluia!!! He is Risen !The Resurrected Christ conquers for us, sins, guilt, shame, and death, as well as evil, evil spirits, demons and Satan.
The Broken Christ or as it is known in México “Cristo Roto” may not have liturgical, doctrinal or biblical teaching but a strong spirituality of seeing and treating our brokenness and that of our brothers and sisters in the Broken Christ.
FORGIVENESS SETS US FREE FROM BEING PRISONER OF THE OFFENDER AS WELL AS PRISONERS OF UNHAPPINESS. IT IS NOT A SIGN OF WEAKNESS BUT STRENGTH TO FORGIVE.
Love and sacrifice are the fundamental principles of the redemption story. Love gives all without reservation. While sacrifice endures all for the sake of love. Both are a form of complete or total self-giving, self-donating, or self-emptying.
In a nutshell, the passion and death of Jesus Christ is an exemplification of courage versus cowardice on the part of all the actors involved. From Christ himself to the least participant in the passion and death narrative. In Christ, we see a journey of courage from the inception of his public ministry till his death on the cross.
The Feast of the Annunciation of the Lord is a total and complete Mary´s yes to God without reservation. It is a conscientious ascent to motherhood. This motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary announced to her on the Feast of Annunciation of the Lord 25, March occurs exactly nine months to the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord, 25 December. It is a joyful feast of Mary´s cooperation with the eternal plan of God to save the fallen human race. It is celebrated motherhood of God, of ours and the Universal Church.
All our Lenten observances point to one single and simple fact that is the willingness of dying to self. This is all Lenten season is all about taking an introspective journey to fix or mend our brokenness by sins, failures and weaknesses. Hence, Lent revolves around the practices of prayer, fasting, almsgiving and penance. This entails dying to self to ascertain spiritual growth and Christian maturity.
The fatherhood of Saint Joseph is a virtue worthy of emulating in our time where the figure of the father is disappearing. It is an imitating standard too in Christendom where fatherhood is a big problem as marriage and family lives are in crisis. St. Joseph a quiet, silent, innocent, obedient, loyal, humble, hard-working, provident, protective and loving father and spouse invite us to a profound reflection of fatherhood.