Tuesday 11 April
Easter Tuesday First reading - Acts 2:36-41 “God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ”. This is the essence of our faith. The crucified Jesus is our Lord and Christ. The Crucified became the Lord through resurrection. Resurrection is the power of God who forgives. Resurrection is the power of God who gives the Holy Spirit as a gift to the believers. Resurrection is the power of the Lord which fulfils all His promises to our forefathers. Resurrection is the power of the Lord who calls those who are far away and those who are near to Himself. Resurrection is the miracle of God’s love which brings merges together our temporality and the divine eternity. In order to participate in this great reality, we must repent and be united with Jesus through the sacraments. Let’s reflect: How much am I aware about my unity to the Jesus crucified and risen in the sacraments?
Monday 10 April
Easter Monday First reading - Acts 2:14,22-33 “You have made known the way of life to me, you will fill me with gladness through your presence”. This is the experience of resurrection. Knowing the way of life. The way of life which cannot be corrupted, which cannot be abandoned to Hades. The way of life which can never be conquered by the power of death. This life is made known to man in Jesus Christ. This experience is not just an epistemological experience. It is not just a knowledge. But it is a concrete reality. That is what we can read in the next sentence. “You fill me with gladness through your presence”. God filling man with gladness by His presence. The corruption of decay and death come from deprivation and separation. This is transformed. The decay and death are substituted with gladness. Gladness of fullness and integrity. This gladness comes from the presence of the Lord in me. He fills me with His presence which gives me gladness. This pure gladness is the Paschal Joy. The joy that Lord is present in us and fills us. Jesus going out of the tomb is the human nature liberated by gladness by the presence of the Lord in us. Gladness of reconciliation and forgiveness. Let’s reflect: Am I experiencing the presence of Resurrected Lord in me?
Sunday 9 April
Easter Sunday First reading - Acts 10:34,37-43 “we have eaten and drunk with him after his resurrection from the dead”. This is the resurrection experience that touches our daily life. Resurrection is not something abstract, but very concrete. It is Lord being with us and shares our table, shares our joys, and shares our sorrows. And He want that we tell everyone that in Him all the sins will be forgiven. And His authority is over both alive and dead. That is over everything that existed or exits or will exist. Through Resurrection, Jesus Christ, Son of God became man becomes the Lord of the creation. He was the Lord always but with Resurrection, He is sharing His power with us so that we can get out of our sins and our shortcomings. He is sharing with us as sharing around a table, His love, forgiving and embracing, to make us also sons and daughter of God the Father. By conquering death, He conquered the most powerful evil and liberated us from that too. In the person of Jesus Christ, the mystery of Resurrection becomes a concrete reality of everyday life and naturally the life after death too. Let’s reflect: how much I feel the Resurrection as a everyday concrete reality?
Saturday 8 April
Holy Saturday The silence of Holy Saturday is not the muteness of the Word of God but it is the eloquence of the Word of God. The silence of Holy Saturday is the reality that the incarnate Word of God takes control of your history, our history. He became an integral part of our history. He became the one who changes our history. That is Jesus Christ. The more you know about Jesus Christ, the more you are in love with him. Because He embraces each and everyone. The silence of the Word of God on Good Saturday is an example that God moves forward with His plan irrespective of our plans and He will guide us to the our right destination.