Easter Reflection

Dear Parishioners,

The following is a beautiful Easter time reflection from Pope Francis:

During these days of resurrection, the word that often resonated within me in prayer was that of Galilee, “there, where everything began,” Peter says in this first speech. Things happen in Jerusalem, but they began on Galilee. In our life, too, it began in a “Galilee”: each one of us has had a Galilee experience of the        encounter with the Lord, that encounter which is never forgotten, often gets buried by things, by work, by fears, and even by sins and worldliness.

To bear witness it is necessary to often make the pilgrimage to one’s own Galilee, to recall the memory of that encounter, that astonishment, and from there to set out again. But if ones does not follow this path of remembrance, there is the danger of just staying there, where one is, and there is even the danger of not knowing why one is there. This discipline is followed by those men and women who want to bear witness; to go back to one’s own Galilee where we encountered the Lord; to that first astonishment.

Pope Francis

 

God bless us all!
Fr. Citino