Happy Easter!

One of the great things I've discovered about Catholicism in my year of being one, is that the holidays last forever!

It's Easter until May 15th this year (Pentecost Sunday)! So make sure you're wishing everyone you meet a happy Easter, 'cause even more than Christmas, this is the most wonderful time of the year!

Christmas teaches us about God's impossible love, that He would come to earth as a humble baby, and live as one of us! Easter makes that love more impossible still, in that "while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us"! (Romans 5:8) Jesus told His disciples that the greatest love that exists is one where a man would lay down his life for his friends (John 15:13). He then went on to show how His own love goes beyond the greatest love there is, by laying His life down for His enemies. Going back to Romans, St. Paul continues in chapter 5: "How much more then, since we are now justified by His blood, will we be saved through Him from the wrath. Indeed, if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, how much more, once reconciled, will we be saved by His life. Not only that, but we also boast of God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation" (vv. 9-11).

Good Friday was all about Jesus dying for our sins. We're reconciled to God through that action! That's impossible Love! And it continues! Christ's resurrection completed that event, saving us from death, so that we can be completely alive and united with God!

Christ is Risen! Alleluia, Alleluia!