Hello.
As we speed through the Season of Easter, we need to keep in mind just what it is that we have celebrated.
When we have these seasons after great feasts like Christmas or Easter, they are given to us so that we might continue the celebration long after the calendar day. Seasons give us the joy of that feast so that we might be able to rejoice and continue to contemplate the mystery of that feast.
We are asked to live these feasts out in our lives, to make them real that others may come to know and rejoice as well. When we make these feasts real in our lives they become, as it were, a foundation upon which we can build our Christian lives.
But we know that these foundations can be a little shaky because we may have not laid the foundation as well as we should.
Charles West tells us, “We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking only to learn that it is God shaking them.” And if that be true, maybe God is telling us that we need to take a good long look at them, and maybe spend a little more time to reexamine these foundations as the ones that God needs to establish His Kingdom here on earth.
Peace and All Good,
Fr. Vinnie, fcm and the
Bros and Srs of the
Franciscan House of Prayer.
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