Good morning! It's now Holy Saturday, a quiet day that is given us to pray and reflect on the mystery of Christ's suffering and death while we await for His resurrection. I invite you to devote your time to continue with our Holy Week Retreat online. The LINK below has been updated. Please click on it.
Here's an excerpt on today's Holy Saturday/Easter Retreat:
Below "... is a sign that’s perfect for Easter.
What do you read at first glance?
Some people, at first glance, read the sign as saying “GOD IS NOWHERE.”
Others, however, see something entirely different:
“GOD IS NOW HERE.”
One single space makes all the difference!
Depending on where you put that space, either the sign is a complaint about God’s absence, or a bold proclamation of an astonishing piece of good news!
When you think about it, that’s how Easter works.
The disciples never really quite got a 100% handle on it. Yes, they had those amazing encounters with the Risen Lord, but when they stepped out of that Upper Room, the world seemed disturbingly
unchanged.
The Romans still ruled over them.
People still suffered. People still fell ill. People still died. Worse, aside from the
physical evil of suffering, disease, and death, there also still remained
moral evil:
People still sinned. They harmed one another and hurting themselves. Whatever happened to the Resurrection?
They could have sworn the world would be transformed, but the Lord seemed NOWHERE to be found.
Don’t we today know how that feels?
But the message of Easter is precisely
“The Lord is NOW HERE— appearances to the contrary notwithstanding!”
Just like the sign, a second look at what seems like
the same tired old, broken world– a more attentive and deliberate reading– can reveal the Risen Lord’s presence:
Something has happened. Something has changed. And something is afoot. Either we choose to see it that way– or we join Team Jesus." - PINS OF LIGHT
Here's the link:
https://pinsoflight.net/2020/04/09/online-holy-week-retreat-2020/