Today we affirm a central tenet of our Catholic faith: that God is in fact a community of persons -- a family of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit -- bound together in love, freely giving that love to each other, to all creation, and to us his beloved children.
The Holy Spirit did not stop moving after the Pentecost event. The Spirit is God-in-motion, the Lord and Giver of Life propelling us in the direction of Christ and his grace.
The voice of the risen Lord reminds us that we belong to God, and we shall never fall out of his hands. This is the graceful security we enjoy as members of Christ’s Body, the Church.
We have every reason to anticipate that the risen Lord will come to us right in the middle of our busyness and uncertainty, in a place where he promises to be our consolation and salvation.
Today is Divine Mercy Sunday, a day in which the Church gives us a golden opportunity to acknowledge our lack of faith, struggle to trust, and the burden of our human weakness and sin, whatever that may be. In turn, it is a day to receive the Lord’s mercy in abundance.
At the start of Holy Week, may our Holy Communion with Jesus help us commend our suffering to God the Father, and bear our crosses with trust in the compassionate heart of God!
We must never be satisfied with the status quo — Jesus’ words are very clear: “Unless your holiness surpasses that of the Scribes and Pharisees, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Here is the recipe for happiness that will take us from here to eternity: if we rely on the grace of Christ, our Lord and Savior, we will have an inner joy and a peace that no one and nothing can take from us.