Sunday, April 5, 2015

Easter 2015


Christ's resurrection is not an event of the past; it contains a vital power which has permeated this world.  Where all seems to be dead, signs of the resurrection suddenly spring up. It is an irresistible force.  Often it seems that God does not exist: all around us we see persistent injustice, evil, indifference and cruelty.  But it is also true that in the midst of darkness something new always springs to life and sooner or later produces fruit.  On razed land life breaks through, stubbornly yet invincibly.  However dark things are, goodness always re-emerges and spreads.  Each day in our world beauty is born anew, it rises transformed through the storms of history.

                                                                 --Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium (Joy of the Gospel)


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