EASTER SUNDAY: “WE ANNOUNCE THE LIBERATING PRESENCE OF JESUS CHRIST AND THE NEW WORLD BORN IN HIS RESURRECTION” OMI RULE C9
Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples,
‘He has been raised from the dead, and he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him.’ (Matthew 28: 7)
After journeying with him through the sad event of his Passion, after weeping over the torments that our sins made him endure, how consoling it is to see him rise triumphant over death and hell, and what gratitude must fill our hearts at the thought that this good Master has really willed to make us sharers in his resurrection, destroying the sin that is in us and giving us a new life.
Eugene de Mazenod to his mother, 4 April 1809, EO XIV n 50
OMI Rule of Life, Constitution 8
“We will always be close to the people with whom we work, taking into account their values and aspirations… Awareness of our own shortcomings humbles us, yet God’s power makes us confident as we strive to bring all people – especially the poor – to full consciousness of their dignity as human beings and as sons and daughters of God.”
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It is not just on Easter Sunday that we live out our own experiences of the new world born in His Resurrection. It begins to become a daily occurrence as we walk with those to whom we are sent, whether they be those [adults] asking to learn more about God and God’s Church; those who ask for Baptism and the Sacraments. or the least of the least.
We consciously let our lives be enriched by the poor and the marginalized, the new lepers of the 21st century. This as we work and walk with them, for they can make us hear in the ways the Gospel we proclaim. We do this with a sensitivity born of love, to the mentality of all people, drawing on the riches of their cultures and faith traditions. (ref. R 8a)
Some had family and friends with them, and others were alone except for their sponsor, all of them are now part of a larger family. These are but some of the people with whom we work as together strive to bring all people to full consciousness of their dignity as human beings and as sons and daughters of God.
Easter Sunday morning the church was so full that there were only a few seats available – families, and young people – the same young people who have been searching for a deeper way of being – they have come from all corners of the world: the same corners that Eugene de Mazenod sent and continues to send to which his sons and daughters find their places of belonging.
None of this possible with out the Cross and Resurrected Saviour.