Easter is my favorite celebration of the year. It starts with Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the call to repentance and the beginning of Lent. Lent last 40 days if you don’t count the Sundays, which are considered Feast Days. Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week. Holy Week includes Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil 🙂 If we can we attend all three services, most years we attend at least two, Good Friday for sure and the Easter Vigil. The Easter Vigil is the Mass of the year. During the Easter Vigil we read about all the ways God pointed to Jesus throughout the Old Testament. We sing Psalms of sorrow, waiting and prophecy. We begin in total darkness and slowly the light emerges, first by candlelight, then as the churches own lights are gradually turned on until at last we celebrate Jesus crushing death by His resurrection and a chorus of Alleluias arise, the church bells ring and Lent is over. Easter has arrived!

Easter lasts for 50 days until Pentecost. Pentecost marks the arrival of the Holy Spirit to the apostles.

I love Easter and all it’s seasons. I love getting together with family and celebrating a happy day together, eating good food, finding eggs, enjoying copious amounts of chocolate and sweets. Mostly I love celebrating that one day Jesus will raise from the dead my family and friends who’ve gone before me. I look forward to meeting my sister. I look forward to seeing our Lauren Rose again. I look forward to seeing my Dad, Aunts, Uncles, pets.

The promise of Easter starts with Christmas, John 3:16. You can’t have one without the other.

Father Mike, C.S. Lewis and others have said either Jesus is who he says he is or Christianity is one of the biggest frauds ever.

How do you not believe in Jesus? Everything in the Old Testament points to Him. Jesus himself tells us who He is. He tells us He will be crucified and that He will rise after three days. Either you believe Him or you don’t. There’s not a whole lot of in between. I hope one day everyone meets Jesus and chooses to follow Him. I have met Him and I have chosen to follow Him and so today….

For Easter…I Give Thanks!

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