Easter is a time when we celebrate the triumph of life over death, the triumph of God over sin, and the reality of Christ's risen life in us. We prepare for Easter by taking stock of where we are spiritually, emotionally and mentally.
Holy Week is an opportunity that none of us should miss and the three days of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday (Easter Eve), what is called the Sacred Tridium, are days of special devotion that all Christians should observe, otherwise Easter is meaningless.
I discovered a helpful meditation about the cross: -
The horizontal — a reminder
that like Christ I am on a pilgrim journey...
that like Christ I
cannot always choose the way...
that like Christ I carry with me a burden I
cannot lose...
The vertical — a reminder
that God is always there...
that all I do is in the end to give
him glory...
that my journey to heaven must be rooted in the
ground...
If my life is really a pilgrimage to God, carrying the weight of
myself, it is sensible to abandon unnecessary trifles so as not to be
encumbered
for I cannot serve God and material things...
to be willing to
lay the axe to the root of the tree and be converted,
for to be perfect is
to have changed often...
to accept the company of others, their consolation
and their help,
for on my own I am powerless...
The road is rough and the
falls are many.
God draws me towards himself, for
his love is
patient...
my baptism has marked me out for him...
my heart knows no rest
until it rests in him.
May you all have a very Holy Easter, following not the wrong path, but being lead in the path of life eternal.
God bless you.
Your priest and friend.
MALCOLM FERRIER
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