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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Happy Easter! Christ is risen! Death is conquered!

We no longer look for Christ in the tomb, because He lives in our Church, in His life-giving sacraments, in His Word proclaimed and in our faith-filled hearts.

The early disciples went forth not remembering Christ, but experiencing Him. He was not a mere “beautiful story” to be remembered with gratitude. He was a living, redemptive and actual presence then and there. They went out with the joyous and grateful cry, “Christ lives in me!” How have you experienced the presence of the Risen Christ?

Easter reminds us that we cannot merely talk about Christ. We must bring Him. As one person put it, “He must be a living vital reality closer than breathing and nearer than hands and feet.”

My wish and my prayer for all this Easter is this: may we all be filled with zeal, with joy and with gratitude and if we are then the powers of the Resurrection will come closer to us!

I share with you this prayer of the late Brother Roger Schutz: Jesus Christ, inner light, you came not to judge the world but so that, through you, the Risen Lord, every human being might be saved, reconciled. And when the love that forgives becomes a fire within us, then the heart, even when afflicted, can begin to love anew.

A blessed Easter,

Fr. Biron