Have you lived a Paschal Mystery? That is, have you
travelled the journey from Good Friday to Easter Sunday in your own life and
met God along the way?
Paschal Mystery: A time when it
seemed that all was lost, but then you rose from the ashes to a new life that
was better than the life you left.
Paschal Mystery: A time of great
loss that gave way to new blessings that you never could have imagined before.
Paschal Mystery: A time of
suffering that gave way to a time of relief and restoration?
Paschal Mystery: A time when you
fell so low that you thought God might give up on you (My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?) only to find that God
was there supporting you and lifting you up and restoring to you your lost
dignity?
Paschal Mystery: Someone might
be lying right now on a bed of pain, terminally ill, awaiting or even hoping
for death, hoping that the death they have to pass through will help them
experience the words, “Today you will be
with me in Paradise.”
Some of us might be at the Good
Friday stage of our own Paschal Mystery—some of us might be suffering, or might
be disappointed, humiliated, bewildered, confused, unsure or tempted to despair—in
other words, some of us may be experiencing our own Good Friday during this
Lent. If so, don’t give up hope: look beyond your pain and your loss to an
Easter Sunday which is sure to follow.
And on the journey, you will
encounter Christ. Look for Him. Pray for Him to reveal Himself to you.
God bless you.
