MONDAY IN EASTER WEEK

Rev. Mary McCue

Today is Monday in Easter Week. We have just experienced sacred liturgies
commemorating “the lows and the highs” of Jesus Christ’s life on earth, his
death and his resurrection. Now, the legacy of Jesus will start to emerge,
as stories are told and, eventually, written down in the Gospels. It is a time of emerging faith. It is the beginning of Christianity. We heard, in the first reading at the Easter Vigil, the story of Genesis – how God created the world from a formless void veiled in darkness, how light appeared, to rule over the day and the night. How vegetation was created.

And “God saw that it was good.”

These two creation stories are, of course, thousands of years apart in time.
Even so, they are guideposts for us. They show us that God is working
powerfully among us and with us, and creates great things for us –
the Earth. The sky. The plants and fruits. His Son.

Easter is a time of new beginnings. Let us use this time to begin again ourselves, to re-discover our faith, to rejoice in all that God has done for us. Above all, let us rejoice in our Savior, who we have just mourned for and suffered with and triumphed with this past weekend. Let us never lose sight of the light – the light of Jesus.

Thanks be to God.