Ladislaus D’Souza, RVA News

Rejoice! For in the fostering of justice lies our experience of Easter! Alleluia!!

Finally, before leaving the place in silence to allow the exercise just participated in to stir in our very being a greater love for our Crucified Lord, each picked up a Crossed Bun and a Bunch of Grapes to share with our families at home in remembrance of the humbling STATIONS experience.

In keeping with the mood of the day, the universal drabness of the ‘no-blooms’ period is momentarily broken with the temporary return of flowers around the Altar—a further reminder of the Spring of Easter soon to come!

Pass me not, oh, gentle Saviour, Hear my humble cry. While on others thou art calling Do not pass me by!

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing” (Eph 1:3),

Then be it Manipur or Myanmar, Ukraine or Russia, Afghanistan or Israel or Gaza, the humbleness and helplessness of the Stable beckons us to divert our attention from selfishness to righteousness, from possessions to selflessness, from greed to generosity and so on.

If one could cite a single concrete example of the direct relationship of Mission Sunday with the mission of every baptized Christian, it is the emphatic remonstration of John the Baptist with King Herod: “It is not lawful for you to take your brother’s wife” (Mk 6:18).

It was to gratefully commemorate Mary’s role in this victory that Pope Saint Pius V instituted the Feast of Our Lady of Victory on this date.

Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God

How much longer will the dance of death and destruction be allowed to go on in Ukraine by the international community?