COVID-19 has an expiration date, but the Risen Christ’s healing grace never ends. So, today, the Risen Christ walks with us in our Emmaus Easter Season journey. Hence, with hope and faith, we pray: “Risen Christ, promise us your healing love: for better or for worse and in sickness and in health so long shall we live. Amen.”

An Update from Director, Jeanie Kiefer

On this second Sunday of Easter and also Divine Mercy Sunday, when many countries around the world are threatened by the Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) and people are living in constant fear and anxiety, the gospel today handed to us the divine consolation with this greeting of Jesus to his disciples: “Peace be with you! The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. And he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!”

The Resurrection lives in us! So, we’re not in LOCKDOWN anymore, but the Holy Easter People, joining the billion Catholics around the world, and joyfully singing: “Christ is risen! Alleluia!”

We all are called to love God and do the Father’s will, even when it is difficult. But love involves sacrifice—dying to self and making sacrifices for the one we love. We can use the example of Christ in the Garden to accept our crosses well.

PALM SUNDAY! It’s also called: the PASSION OF THE DIVINE! Jesus, while nailed on the cross, He held firm our names on his palms and carried us into his heart, and prayed: “Father, forgive them for they do not know what they do!” The content of his prayer isn’t hatred, but love; and it’s not death but life, He said: “Today you will be with me in paradise!”