When We are Baptized We are plunged into Christ's Paschal Mystery.
As, Saint Paul reminds us Romans ( 6: 3-4) We enter the Tomb with Christ imitating him in his death
so that we may rise like Christ to a new life.
Baptism initiates this mystery, Life unfolds its possibilities and crossing the threshold of death crowns our participation in Christ's victory over death.
Our Faith is nothing unless it is centred on the Paschal Mystery as its essential core.
Nature rehearses the miracle and mystery of the Resurrection around us in a myriad of ways if only we had the eyes of faith to see it and attend to these mini sacraments of an Eternal Truth.
Little Birds hatch from eggs carefully warmed by a Patient Thrush.
Magnificent Butterflies with colourful wings emerge from hidden cocoons where once active caterpillars went through a radical transformation.
Seeds planted in Autumn grow lush and lovely as new life emerges from these miniature treasure chests.
Jesus used the Image of the Dying Wheat Grain to explain this same mystery. His Own Sacred Passion and Death were comparable to the wheat grain apparently dying in the earth. The Green Blade of Grass which rises with Easter is a Symbol of His Own Victorious Resurrection.
This is a victory to be shared with us. Saint Paul, describes the Risen Christ as "The First Fruits of all who have fallen asleep.
The Golden Harvest of the Resurrection is only possible because of the prior death and rising of Christ, that precious grain of Wheat.
The Eucharist in Easter Tide :
In the Eucharist, The Church gathers to celebrate ceaselessly the awesome and amazing Paschal Mystery. Here Faith is nourished and strengthened as We Mortals Feast at the Table of God's Word and the Table of the Real Presence.
Jesus Christ assured his disciples and followers that anyone who eats His Flesh and drinks His Blood will be raised up on the last day.
He is most assuredly the "Living Bread" as much as the dying wheat grain each of which gives us the pledge of Resurrected Life.
It is therefore not surprising that One Of the Fathers of the Early Church namely Saint Ignatius of Antioch who spoke lovingly of the Holy Eucharist. He called it "The Medicine of Immortality".
Our Aim should be like that of Saint Paul who strove only to know Christ and the Glorious Power of His Resurrection. Faith is a much deeper reality than rational argument or intellectual proof.
We cannot and should not try to explain away the Resurrection.
Credits : Resurrection : Myth Or Reality
By F. Clancy
Pages 10-11
Don Bosco's Madonna, Mumbai
April 2008
Vol - 9, N0 - 12
As, Saint Paul reminds us Romans ( 6: 3-4) We enter the Tomb with Christ imitating him in his death
so that we may rise like Christ to a new life.
Baptism initiates this mystery, Life unfolds its possibilities and crossing the threshold of death crowns our participation in Christ's victory over death.
Our Faith is nothing unless it is centred on the Paschal Mystery as its essential core.
Nature rehearses the miracle and mystery of the Resurrection around us in a myriad of ways if only we had the eyes of faith to see it and attend to these mini sacraments of an Eternal Truth.
Little Birds hatch from eggs carefully warmed by a Patient Thrush.
Magnificent Butterflies with colourful wings emerge from hidden cocoons where once active caterpillars went through a radical transformation.
Seeds planted in Autumn grow lush and lovely as new life emerges from these miniature treasure chests.
Jesus used the Image of the Dying Wheat Grain to explain this same mystery. His Own Sacred Passion and Death were comparable to the wheat grain apparently dying in the earth. The Green Blade of Grass which rises with Easter is a Symbol of His Own Victorious Resurrection.
This is a victory to be shared with us. Saint Paul, describes the Risen Christ as "The First Fruits of all who have fallen asleep.
The Golden Harvest of the Resurrection is only possible because of the prior death and rising of Christ, that precious grain of Wheat.
The Eucharist in Easter Tide :
In the Eucharist, The Church gathers to celebrate ceaselessly the awesome and amazing Paschal Mystery. Here Faith is nourished and strengthened as We Mortals Feast at the Table of God's Word and the Table of the Real Presence.
Jesus Christ assured his disciples and followers that anyone who eats His Flesh and drinks His Blood will be raised up on the last day.
He is most assuredly the "Living Bread" as much as the dying wheat grain each of which gives us the pledge of Resurrected Life.
It is therefore not surprising that One Of the Fathers of the Early Church namely Saint Ignatius of Antioch who spoke lovingly of the Holy Eucharist. He called it "The Medicine of Immortality".
Our Aim should be like that of Saint Paul who strove only to know Christ and the Glorious Power of His Resurrection. Faith is a much deeper reality than rational argument or intellectual proof.
We cannot and should not try to explain away the Resurrection.
Credits : Resurrection : Myth Or Reality
By F. Clancy
Pages 10-11
Don Bosco's Madonna, Mumbai
April 2008
Vol - 9, N0 - 12
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