Easter Week One

Do you ever feel like you’re “better” at Lent than you are at Easter? We tend to prepare well in Lent — by increasing our prayer time, committing to some sort of fasting, and even focusing a bit more outwards with almsgiving — but when it comes time to celebrate Easter, we often lose steam. 

But what if this Easter were different? What if we, like the early Apostles, devoted ourselves to continuing the journey rather than merely arriving at Easter? What if we saw this time not as a point of arrival but more as a point of departure? In this season of experiencing new life in Christ, let’s hear the call to be renewed by His grace. Let’s truly celebrate this season with the joy of resurrection in our hearts and an alleluia on our lips. 

In less than 50 days, we celebrate the great feast of Pentecost, when the Church was born and first sent by the Holy Spirit to go and make disciples of all nations. The question is: will you be ready this year?

“They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers.”

Acts 2:42