Never Too Late

We rush to prepare for a Holiday. The celebration of Easter offers time to be in prayer as community at the Lord’s Supper, throughout the reading of His passion and in alleluias as we proclaim His Resurrection. Between community liturgies there is time for quiet personal reflection as we are invited to know better the person of Jesus. The beginning of the Easter message of Pope Francis declares the kerygma in a short sentence “Jesus, Love incarnate, died on the cross for our sins, but God the Father raised him and made him the Lord of life and death. In Jesus, love has triumphed over hatred, mercy over sinfulness, goodness over evil, truth over falsehood, life over death” The Holy Father quickly directs us to act in the Spirit of the Love which Easter declares by “ leaving ourselves behind and encountering others, being close to those crushed by life’s troubles, sharing with the needy, standing at the side of the sick, elderly and the outcast” Our holiday preparations are often about family and friends.We organize where and when to get together. The social and secular components of a spring time holiday are the place where Christians live the Love and declare Jesus Presence like Peter in the text today from the Acts of the Apostles in the Roman Catholic Lectionary. The proclamation of the basic message, the kerygma, by Peter, by Pope Francis and by believers places the acts of charity by Christians in the power and will of God and we, like Tami Whitney, come to realize that it is not too late to re commit and accept the invitation  of Jesus to “Come and See”. Our encounter with the risen Lord, like that of Mary Magdalene in the passage from the Gospel of John today, may come after the excitement of finding the empty tomb as we contemplate the events of our Easter Weekend but it is the invitation which never comes too late to join Him in the Galilee of our inner self where both He and we are home.