Christ has risen, Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
After this holy time of preparation during Lent, we burst with the spirit of Easter joy which will carry us forward as we share the truly Good News with a world that is sorely in need of good news. How will you celebrate this Easter? A joyful Easter liturgy? A quiet day with a chocolate bunny? A gathering with family or friends? An Easter hike? Hopefully, there is some way for each of us to experience that sense of Easter joy which is a gift from God.
For myself, Easter Sunday will start with mass at the Cathedral in Hamilton, followed by coffee with some of the Sisters. In the afternoon, I will join my family in a long standing family tradition of an Easter Egg hunt and Easter Quiz at my brother’s house. Being COVID times, it will be held outside. [A side note: As this will be the first time we are gathering in over two years, we will meet the new babies in the family who arrived during the COVID pandemic including one little fellow who arrived at the very start of the pandemic in January 2020 and whose name is Cove. No, it is not short for Covid. His father is Irish so he was named after the city of Cobh in Ireland but knowing that most people would not know how to pronounce Cobh, they decided to spell it as it sounds.]
This joy we experience as an Easter people who recognize and rejoice in the Resurrection needs to be shared with whoever crosses our path. How it is shared can be summed up in the words of one of our wise Sisters:
‘The most important thing is loving the person in front of you’.
Amen. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
-Sister Nancy Sullivan, csj
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