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Showing posts with label Happy. Show all posts
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Happy Easter!
As I was tucking my two-year-old daughter into bed last night, I said “Good night, Ellie. I love you.” And to my surprise, she said “Good night. Love you, too. Happy Easter.”
At first, I thought it was cute that she was still saying “Happy Easter” so long after we had celebrated Easter. Then, I thought, “Wait a minute… one, two, three, four, five, six weeks. We’re still celebrating Easter—or, at least we should be.”
Until Pentecost, we could really still be wishing each other a “Happy Easter,” but we don’t. The Resurrection is so central to our faith that it takes 50 days to celebrate it. In my family, we have a nice brunch and egg hunt on Easter Sunday, but we don’t do anything particularly special on the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Sundays. Why do we seem to stop celebrating Easter so early?
I’d like to propose doing something different for the rest of this year and for years to come. Do something special on each of the seven Sundays of Easter. It doesn’t have to be a big brunch and egg hunt each week because anything you do for seven weeks in a row would start to lose some of the excitement around it. Maybe you go on a nature walk at your local park. Maybe you invite family or friends over for a friendly game of baseball and a cook out. Maybe you volunteer at a local soup kitchen. It could be anything that’s a little out of the ordinary for you. Offer it up in the continuing celebration of Christ’s Resurrection. And keep reminding your children, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and fellow parishioners that Easter is so special, it’s celebrated for seven weeks. Happy Easter!
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“Cross” image from Luigi Diamanti
Angela Glassmeyer is the Institutional Marketing & Sales Manager at St. Anthony Messenger Press. She is blessed with two amazing children and a husband who both encourages and inspires her. She loves to entertain and feed large crowds of family and friends, but does not love the cleanup that comes with it. Angela has been actively involved at St. James of the Valley for almost twenty years and has served as the PSR Coordinator since 2005. blog comments powered by Monday, 16 May 2011
Happy New Year From RealCatholicBlog!
It’s been an eventful year and we feel blessed to have taken part in it with you. Thank you for joining with us as we’ve explored various aspects of the Faith and the culture. We very much look forward to 2011 and a more active, more involved, much improved RealCatholicBlog.com. We hope you join us.
This year has been an important one for the Church. For example, Pope Benedict XVI was extraordinarily active over the last 12 months (Kevin Clarke/Zenit.org/Catholic.net): Five foreign trips, including a ground breaking one to England to beatify Cardinal Newman (Fr. Richard J. Shiefen/CatholicInsight.com), the Year of the Priest and the canonization of several saints (NewsAhead.com) were only a few of the visible accomplishments. He continues to right the direction of the Church, speak out against evil, and rejuvenate the flock.
Year-ends allow us to reflect and ponder, and look forward with renewed vigor. It’s good for all of us to take some time off and recharge and renew. Whether you are one to make resolutions or not, it is important to refocus and approach our lives with a new vigor. That includes our spiritual lives, which requires consistent introspection.
From Brother John, myself and the team at RealCatholicBlog and RealCatholic.com, our online Catholic book an merchandise store, have a blessed, safe, healthy, prosperous and joyful New Year. Until we return shortly after the New Year, we leave you with this commentary on the meaning of the Christmas season and how to act upon it: The Word made flesh, Emmanuel, God Among Us. It is important that not only do we renew ourselves through Mass and the sacraments this New Year, but to bring others with us. We are called to God’s Grace but also, as Jesus tells us, to be a reflection of Him and win souls to him for their salvation.
Please view this video from Michael Voris of RealCatholicTV.com (no connection), who is at his most eloquent:
Cooperate with His Grace To be restored to the heights of Heavenly Communion with our infant savior . . . is the quintessential gift. …
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