CHRIST IS RISEN!

Just like in the Emmaus story, let us pray that

we may experience our Risen Lord

more profoundly 
in our lives 
and in our daily ministries!

ALLELUIA, CHRIST IS RISEN!

During this Easter Celebration,
may we be more empowered in our life witness
by PROFOUNDLY EXPERIENCING THE LOVE OF THE ONE
who has conquered sin and death!

EASTER EXULTATION

LET US BE AWAKENED FROM OUR SLUMBER

AND GREET THE BREAKING DAY,

CHRIST HAS BANISHED DARKNESS
AND TURNED THE NIGHT AWAY!

ALLELUIA, THE LORD IS RISEN!

May Joy of Easter

dwell upon us all!

EASTER PRAYER

PRAYER TO THE RESTORER OF ENTOMBED VITALITY

Awakened One, Source of Inner Power,

Restorer of Tombed Vitality, Giver of Graced Gusto.

You, who have raised from the cold stone of death,

come and resurrect me from my own entombment.

Repair what has weakened in my spiritual endeavors,

revive my mildewed , cobwebbed relationships;

Lift up my waning hope when I wail with the world's pain,

restore my sense of oneness with all of your creation;

Refresh my daily call to embrace the sacred

to find you in every gesture that dances with your heart;

Push  back the stone of self-centeredness

untomb my genrousity, renew my dedication;

Raise up my dilapidated dreams, restore my ancient union,

resuscitate my burning desire, 

re-establish my priorities

So you become the Center 
of all I am and all I do.

-Joyce Rupp-

Easter  Blessings on us all!


The Resurrection is not a single event, 
but a loosening of God's power and light into the earth and into history
that continues to alter things,
infusing them with grace and power of God's own holiness.

It is as if a door was opened,
and what poured out will never be stopped
and the door cannot be closed.

Megan McKenna

May God's Overflowing and Abundant Love

Fill our Hearts in a Special Way

this Easter !

CHRIST IS RISEN!

Break the box and shed the nard;
Stop not now to count the cost;
Hither bring pearl, opal, sard;
Reck not what the poor have lost;
Upon Christ throw all away:
Know ye, this is Easter Day.

Build His church and deck His shrine,
Empty though it be on earth;
Ye have kept your choicest wine—
Let it flow for heavenly mirth;
Pluck the harp and breathe the horn:
Know ye not 'tis Easter morn?

Gather gladness from the skies;
Take a lesson from the ground;
Flowers do open their heavenward eyes
And a Spring-time joy have found;
Earth throws Winter's robes away,
Decks herself for Easter Day.

Beauty now for ashes wear,
Perfumes for the garb of woe,
Chaplets for dishevelled hair,
Dances for sad footsteps slow;
Open wide your hearts that they
Let in joy this Easter Day.

Seek God's house in happy throng;
Crowded let His table be;
Mingle praises, prayer, and song,
Singing to the Trinity.
Henceforth let your souls always
Make each morn an Easter Day.

Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ,
(July 28, 1844 –June 8, 1898)

English poet, Roman Catholic convert and Jesuit priest