Easter

As the late player-manager Leo Durocher once said, “Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.”

So, just where was Thomas? When we hear this reading from St. John’s Gospel, we can’t help but wonder.

“May you, amidst feelings of sorrow, anguish, and mourning, experience a deeper joy in your hearts today: Jesus has gloriously triumphed over death.”

“Christ said, in response to what was the greatest command, that it was to love God with all you are,” said the team’s pilot.

When joy bursts from within us, we naturally want to share it.

Pope Leo emphasized the importance of the Gospel’s reach to “those oppressed by the evil that corrupts history and confuses consciences.”

“After death, there is the resurrection,” Father Romanelli said. “Death is just a passage and that is why happiness and joy must be experienced on Easter.”

This power “is God himself for he is Love who creates and generates, Love who is faithful to the end and Love who forgives and redeems.”

“Let us abandon every desire for conflict …  and implore the Lord to grant his peace to a world ravaged by wars and marked by a hatred and indifference “

“This Easter proclamation embraces the mystery of our lives and the destiny of history, reaching us even in the depths of death.”