I hope you all were able to share with us online, our Triduum and Easter Sunday celebrations. If not, those wonderful and powerful celebrations are available on our YouTube link or Facebook Video link. As we embark on this power season of joy and resurrection, this is a time to reap the fruits of our Lenten disciplines and allow the power of Christ’s resurrection and God’s Holy Spirit to make us bolder and more joyful. Each day, consider doing an activity to exercise the love of God and an activity to exercise the love of neighbor. The power and light are within, wanting to find expression. Just when you thought you were done with the disciplines of Lent, it’s time to be about the disciplines of Easter. There is no vacation from being Christ’s disciple, living virtuous disciplines.
Now you may have noticed our video streaming is not quite the same as before. This is what happens when our Paulist Novice, Noah, abandons us. He is now driving cross country back to the Paulist Novitiate in Washington, DC. Please keep him in your prayers. We were blessed to have him during Lent and I had hoped the shelter-in-place policy would have kept him longer. But alas, he is trained to be a Paulist, who by nature is a missionary willing to travel when needed. If you’d like to send him a thank you note, you can write him at Noah Ismael; 1200 Varnum St., NE; Washington, DC 20017 or by e-mail.
- Fr. Ivan