Wishing you all a joyful Easter; I feel immensely grateful today. I couldn’t help but reflect during a beautiful Mass at Ste. Marie Parish today (props to the choir and the magnificent brass section), that in times as challenging as these, where the news of the day each day is filled with financial crisis and violent conflict, that the Easter message, and the hope implicit in the resurrection, has never seemed more poignant, comforting, and indispensible. The Pope, in his Easter message at St. Peter’s today, said, “At a time of world food shortage, of financial turmoil, of old and new forms of poverty, of disturbing climate change, of violence and deprivation which force many to leave their homelands in search of a less precarious form of existence, of the ever present threat of terrorism, of growing fears over the future, it is urgent to rediscover grounds for hope.” It’s my hope that I each day I can rediscover those grounds for hope, hold them close, and live as though I truly believe. Happy Easter!
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