SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER
DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY

Dear Father:

HE IS RISEN! Alleluia!

I was browsing through an old journal of mine this morning. I came across an entry dated more than twenty years ago. The only words written on this particular day were these:

"The ultimate secret of life is the intimate and ultimate knowledge of Death; for without it man would not strive to leave his mark upon the earth."

I thought that was interesting to find on this Divine Mercy Sunday. In many ways it is true -- to truly live we need to have an intimate knowledge of death -- a knowledge of our own mortality on this earth and our eternity in the next life.

With that knowledge we learn that God came in the form of a man to experience with ultimate intimacy the Death of Himself in order to save us. In death there is life, Jesus tells us. If this is true then we need to embrace the knowledge of death and all that it means and not be afraid of it. The Angel of Death is not a Grim Reaper, at least for those who inherit eternal life with God, but an brilliant and beautiful angel some to escort us to the Promised Land.

Oh how great the Divine Mercy of our Lord is to us that he would sacrifice Himself so that we may live.

Our God is a wondrous and great God!

Your miserable servant,
Brother Bubba

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