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putting the good in good friday
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" the first good friday was not good at all. it was bad, very bad, for it was a day when an innocent man was tortured to the max before he was crucified. let us make today's good friday really and truly good by being good and doing good. good friday was not some friday that happened some 2000 years ago. good friday is today and every day when we remember with gratitude Jesus's personal love for us, and respond to this love by living a good life that overflows into love of others, especially the 'little ones'. there's really isn't much to say, especially today. let us just listen and ponder deeply on the fact that Somebody died for you and me..." --- Fr. Jerry Orbos, SVD from the Words in other words book
"...mary magdalene... the first to visit the Lord's tomb and later the first to see the risen Lord... john... the first to believe in the resurrection , beginning at the empty tomb... peter... the first among the deserters to witness with his own eyes the empty tomb... three diverse personalities! three different points of view of the empty tomb! three different intensities of believing! three different ways of relating the story of the resurrection! all three are among the closest friends of the Lord. all three loved the Lord each in their own peculiar ways. all three have seen the risen Lord. all three were transformed by their personal experience of the risen Lord. all three bore witness to the truth of Christ's resurrection through their personal lives. the story of the first Easter begun at an empty tomb, but did not end there. the story traveled from place to place, from one time to another, through the Spirit working in the church, and the people whose lives bore the marks of an encounter with the risen Lord. we, too, can truly claim to be the children of the resurrection if we learn to relinquish the empty tomb and witness through our lives the greatest truth of Christ's resurrection. Have a piece of the good news of Easter. happy Easter! " --- Fr. Nielo Cantilado, SVD from the Word in other words book Christ is risen! spring starts... we, too, begin again... one of my fave quotes says.. " there is absolute and unbroken continuity..." everything has eternal beginnings... nothing ever ends, only stops for a while... things set aside to continue another time... it's all in the way we think and see things... HAPPY EASTER, EVERYONE!