Easter Blessings

Happy Easter!!! The Lord is risen! Woot!

One of my best friends became Catholic last night, and she is still bouncing off the walls with excitement, lol.

The Archbishop gave a fantastic homily last night. Asking why we are here, and why we are Catholic. He basically said the Catholic Church is full of imperfect humans trying to serve a perfect God, and occasionally, because we are human, the Church puts out a lot of stupid statements. He says we need to ask ourselves the tough questions of the Church. "And if we don't, the media will do it for us". On Wednesday night at the Chrism Mass, he said to the congregation "We need to ask ourselves in these hard times if we're going to jump ship (leave the Church). Well, I don't know about you, but I can't swim. So I'm going to cling to the boat of Peter". For this statement, he received a standing ovation. I wasn't there, but I hear it was pretty epic.

So here we are at the beginning of the Easter season, celebrating the resurrected Lord. Jesus conquered death and sin, and so when it seems like the Church may be dying, we can pray it will be resurrected too. Amazing things happen with prayer. In the midst of all the crap, we still have a powerful reason to celebrate. Let us celebrate, and put our prayers together.

This is the year of the priest. We need to love and support our priests, the good ones out there. This is not a lost cause.

Our Lord already won this battle for us, which is why we need to pray with confidence. I pray you all have a wonderful Easter. Just remember that Easter isn't just today. It's an entire season. Let's be joyful, and share our love and joy with others.

Pax Christi.