Dear Reverend Bishops and Fathers,
 
 
“This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad!”
 
Searching the Christian Scriptures for the various accounts of the first Easter, we see Jesus bursting forth from a tomb of darkness and death that could not contain him.  We discover a story of the risen Jesus walking along a road with two disciples who later realize how their hearts had burned within them as they recognized His presence in the breaking of bread.  We also hear of Jesus present in a house after the resurrection appearing in the disciples midst even as the doors were secured and locked.  Over and over we observe Jesus breaking in, breaking down, breaking out and breaking through.  Such is the nature of the resurrection.  Whenever and wherever the doubt, fear and turmoil of the world are touched by light and love, there is resurrection life doing the breaking in.
 
Easter expresses a living hope that all people might know they are embraced by God’s love.   His resurrection presence comes as we seek to be opened to embrace all of life, the good and the bad, and thereby be a people of healing and hope.  It means owning our full humanity as well as that of others, even the unlovable, because God loves us.  Easter truth is to know that with God anything is possible and the darkness of this world can never overcome resurrection light.
 
It is my prayer that the deep and transforming joy of Easter may touch the hearts and lives of each and everyone of you so that you may be renewed by the life of that Holy Spirit which the Risen Lord breathed on his disciples on that first Easter day.
 
HAPPY EASTER!
 
 
Fraternally yours,
 
 
Fr. Doug McNeill, President

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