The stone before the tomb was the first to leap up and in its own way intone a song of praise and wonder. To celebrate Easter is to believe once more that God constantly breaks into our personal histories, challenging our “conventions,” those fixed ways of thinking and acting that end up paralyzing us. To celebrate Easter is to allow Jesus to triumph over the craven fear that so often assails us and tries to bury every kind of hope. The stone before the tomb shared in this, the women of the Gospel shared in this, and now the invitation is addressed once more to you and to me. An invitation to break out of our routines and to renew our lives, our decisions and our existence. An invitation that must be directed to where we stand, what we are doing and what we are, with the “power ratio” that is ours. Do we want to share in this message of life or do we prefer simply to continue standing speechless before events as they happen? He is not here… he is raised! And he awaits you in Gaiilee. He invites you to go back to the time and place of your first love and he says to you: Do not be afraid, follow me. - Pope Francis, Easter Homily 2018 #GiveHim3 #EvenTheStonesPraiseHim #pascha #easter #resurrectionday #powerintheblood #dontbeafraid #EncounterHim #WncounterSoFLo https://www.instagram.com/p/CNOeSEIAasI/?igshid=1s81biuktb9nk
